The nucleus of three generations of Academy Award winners, renowned director John Huston was born Aug. 5, 1906, in Nevada, Mo. He began his Hollywood career as a scriptwriter, penning dialogue for such classics as Jezebel (1938) and Sergeant York (1941). Huston picked up the directorial baton for The Maltese Falcon (1941), a taut detective noir that established his credentials.Famed for crafting films featuring self-reliant, macho protagonists, Huston helmed his magnum opus -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) -- to Oscars for direction and screenplay. The film also netted his actor father, Walter, a statuette for his supporting role.
The director's impressive oeuvre includes The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), in which he directed daughter Anjelica to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Huston passed away Aug. 28, 1987.
AddWise BloodLegendary director John Huston takes on legendary writer Flannery O'Connor with this film version of her debut novel, centered on an angry young man -- Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) -- who returns from war and starts the Church Without Christ. In a small Southern town populated by a cast of misfits --... Read More
AddThe Bermuda TriangleOver the years, hundreds of boats, planes and people have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The mystery continues when a family sets about documenting the ruins of an underwater city located within the famed triangle's confines. Will it surrender its secrets, or will the triangle continue to... Read More
AddDe SadeKeir Dullea and John Huston star in this film about the notorious Marquis de Sade, who exacts his sexual pleasure from the tender flesh of the women of France. But he was not always a purveyor of corruption and depravity. He was once a young boy - honest, innocent, and about to become the victim of... Read More
AddThe Deadly Trackers/Man in the WildernessIn The Deadly Trackers, an enraged sheriff (Richard Harris) tries to find and kill the bank robbers who brutally murdered his wife and son. Harris returns in Man in the Wilderness as a trapper who seeks revenge against a group of men who left him for dead. Filmmaker Samuel Fuller was originally set... Read More
