Hi
I have always considered that Henry Hathaway was the poor relation with regard to John Wayne in that everyone links Ford and Hawks together. Rather than a double I think that it should have been a modern treble . Hathaway like Hawks and Ford was one of the few directors who only had to call for John Wayne to come running.
He was hard on set and probably an egotist and a nasty one at that but most good directors at that time were. I watched the desert Fox on television over the weekend it wasn't bad and many of Hathaways pictures were good to very good rather than average to poor.
Regards
Arthur
