Rhody Hathaway Movies
Entering films late in life after a long career on the stage, Rhody Hathaway played stern fathers and erect military officers in several Westerns of the 1920s. He was the husband of early screen actress Jean Hathaway (née De Fiennes) and the father of legendary film director Henry Hathaway (1898-1985). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi- 1935
A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town newspaper editor who prints all the news that fits his own homespun view of the world. Against the wishes of the town higher-ups, Rogers tries to clear the name of Richard Cromwell, a young man accused of a long-ago bank robbery. Along the way, the genial editor smooths the path of romance between Cromwell and sweet Rochelle Hudson. Life Begins at 40 contains some great bits of dialogue, notably Rogers' comment after unloading a box of canned goods that the American emblem should be changed from an eagle to a can opener. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Will Rogers, Rochelle Hudson, (more)
- 1928
A handsome French trapper must chose between an Indian girl and a pretty white orphan in this Northwoods melodrama produced by poverty row entrepreneur Morris R. Schlank and ostensibly based on popular pulp writer James Oliver Curwood. Mustachioed Walter McGrail played the lovesick trapper, with Neva Gerber as the Indian girl, Lillian Rich as the orphan, and stunt-man Cliff Lyons (who was starring in his own series for Schlank at the time) as the villain, who menaces both girls. The father of director Henry Hathaway, Rhody Hathaway, played a priest. According to the film's press book, "a tribe of Klamath Indians furnished the picturesque backgrounds for the sequences showing the Canadian aboriginals in their natural locale." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lillian Rich, Walter McGrail, (more)
- 1928
At the tail end of her starring career, Agnes Ayres played a young woman attempting to prove that her father (Rhody Hathaway) was framed in this confusing crime drama from low-budget Raleigh Pictures. After stealing a false confession from the district attorney's office, Billie Marden (Ayres) finds herself blackmailed by a detective who forces her to act as co-respondent in a nasty divorce case. The district attorney (Forrest Stanley), who has fallen in love with Billie, not only helps her escape from the blackmailer but also nails the gang that framed her father. The whole affair is a sordid one, and a far cry from Ayres' most famous film, The Sheik (1921). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- 1925
The poverty row team of Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber starred in this obscure silent Western based on General Charles King's A Tale of the Indian Frontier. Set during the Indian Wars, the film centered on a government surveyor who mistakenly believes that a lovely "half-breed" is spying for the enemy. Wilson and Gerber enjoyed a long association that included such serials as The Voice on the Wire (1917) and The Mystery Ship (1917). Despite rumors to the contrary, their association was apparently purely professional. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benjamin F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, (more)
- 1924
This is a rather confusing silent Western melodrama in which Jack Mills (Buck Jones) comes to the aid of a friend, Bud Loupel (William Scott), who has robbed a bank to keep up his house payments. Idiotically, Jack helps his friend by holding up the very same bank, pretending to steal the money his friend had already taken. But Bud gets into a shooting fight with the bank president and, on his deathbed, confesses his guilt. Despite the far-fetched, downright silly plot, the trade magazine Variety claimed the film was "probably the best release Jones has had to date." Rhody Hathaway, the father of director Henry Hathaway, played the heroine's father. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Starring:
- Charles "Buck" Jones, Betty Bouton, (more)
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