Huston, John (1906-1987)
The multi-faceted John Huston entered modern cinema history in 1941 when he wrote the screenplay for The Maltese Falcon, also making his directorial debut. The film establishe...
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As the most important member of a Hollywood family dynasty whose professional roots were planted in vaudeville, John Huston (1906-1987) left an indelible mark on American cinema as a director, writer,...
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Best known as a film director and, in recent years, as a screen actor, John Huston has had a no less productive and distinctive career as a screenwriter. He was born to Rhea and Walter Huston in 1906 ...
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Critical Essay by Eugene Archer
The Hemingway personality has become a familiar stereotype in contemporary folklore, but its influence on the American screen has not been readily apparent. Although th...
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Critical Essay by Richard Whitehall
[One] of the most fashionable blood-sports seems to be baiting John Huston. The fury of disciples suddenly recognising false idols is not a pretty one…. [Bec...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
The worst problem of recent movie epics is that they usually start with an epic in another form and so the director must try to make a masterpiece to compete with an alr...
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Critical Essay by Hans Koningsberger
Last October, in the oldest gothic abbey of Italy, Fossanova, John Huston completed filming A Walk with Love and Death, a novel of mine published in 1961…. ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Dempsey
No historical data could explain the pervasive terror of that tiny fragment of the Hundred Years War that John Huston treats in his beautiful and under-rated A Walk W...
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Critical Essay by Bosley Crowther
["San Pietro"] is a grim pulse-pounding illustration of the cold, relentless violence of war….
[It] is a fine piece of camera reporting and an el...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
The look of [Let There Be Light] is unexceptional, as is the editing. The lighting is like that of every other wartime documentary; the editing is in shot and rever...
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Critical Essay by James Agee
Several of the best people in Hollywood grew, noticeably, during their years away at war; the man who grew most impressively, I thought, as an artist, as a man, in intelli...
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Critical Essay by Manny Farber
[John Huston] is a smooth blend of iconoclast and sheep. If you look closely at his films, what appears to be a familiar story, face, grouping of actors, or tempo has in...
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Huston, John (1906-1987)
John Marcellus Huston
John (Marcellus) Huston
