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HOLLYWOOD - John Huston has come up for the day from Puerto Vallarta, the sleepy little Mexican beach town he converted into a tourist industry by filming "Night of the Iguana" there. He plans to speak with his agent and his business manager; a major Huston film is scheduled for Christmas release, and there are the Huston finances to be scrutinized and new projects to be considered. At 69, he ...
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, actor and sometime screenwriter. He is best known for having directed several great classic films, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, the The African Queen, and Prizzi's Honor (for which his daughter, Anjelica, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting ...
98 Metascore. Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Director John Huston Stars Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston Tim Holt. 2. The Maltese Falcon. 1941 1h 40m Approved.
Cannes, France – An old lion named John Huston came to the Cannes Film Festival last week, and growled at his critics and smiled at his friends and brought along a new movie so sleek and angry it's hard to believe it was made by a man who is 77. The name of the movie is “Under the Volcano,” and it's based on the heartrending novel by Malcolm Lowry about the last 24 hours in the life of ...
John Huston blev født i Nevada, Missouri som søn af den canadisk-fødte skuespiller Walter Huston. Han begyndte sin filmkarriere som manuskriptforfatter og lavede primært film baseret på bøger og skuespil. Han medvirkede desuden som skuespiller i en række film og modtog en Oscar for bedste mandlige birolle i Otto Premingers Kardinalen (1964).
"The great screenwriter and director John Huston was also a memorable actor and talker. The rumbling, sonorous grandiloquence, the archly raised chin, the massive gaiety, with its suggestion of tricks or outright fraud--there were elements of a ripe, nineteenth-century theatricality in Huston's impish performances and echoes, as well, of florid, speechifying senators and tent preachers saving ...
Elwy Yost meets John Huston, director of such films as "The Maltese Falcon", "The African Queen", and "The Man Who Would Be King". Huston offers anecdotes about Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, and Truman Capote, with whom he has worked, describes his long career, and outlines the difficulties he encountered in the making of "Moby Dick". Show More
