Henry Hathaway

Director

Henry Hathaway (1898–1985) was an American film director known for his work in Westerns, adventure films and crime melodramas.

Directed True Grit (1969) starring John Wayne; Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor for that role.

The available review praises Henry Hathaway's direction of True Grit (Il Grinta), highlighting its ironic, anti-heroic presentation of John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn. The review situates the film in the 1969 cultural moment and credits the screenplay by Marguerite Roberts. Hathaway's handling is contrasted with lesser Westerns of the era, and Wayne's Oscar-winning performance is noted.

For:Fans of classic American westerns, John Wayne, and readers interested in film history and 1960s cinema.

 The key to the uniqueness of True Grit lies in the ironic and seemingly anti-heroic presentation of the protagonist, described as a brutal, semi-alcoholic old man, a frontier man who ends up taking orders from a stubborn little girl.

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