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Hustons to be celebrated at Los Angeles film festival -
26 March 2010
g family's contribution to cinema at an upcoming Los Angeles film festival.-
-The stars are the children of late director/actor John Huston, known for his work on classics like 1952's Moulin Rouge, The Misfits (1960) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and their gr
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Caine thrilled to play Bogart's role in Huston classic -
3 April 2009
-Michael Caine jumped at the chance to star in John Huston's epic 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King after learning his role had been intended for his hero Humphrey Bogart.-
-Huston met with Caine in Paris, France and asked him to be a part of the film, opposite Si
John Huston - what members say
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"There's only one Maltese Falcon." 28 January 2004
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Chinatown's A State Of Mind 6 February 2004
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Perfect Fit 28 February 2005
John Huston - filmography
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Marilyn Monroe At The Movies
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, John Huston
Certificate: 
This programme presents a detailed history of Monroe Monroe through the film legacy she left behind. Includes trailers, newsreel footage, and interviews with those who knew her when she was still the sweet and innocent Norma Jean. Also features THE LEGEND OF MARILYN MONROE, a vintage documentary ..read more »
 
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from 76 members
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Sweet Revenge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Richard Grieco, Brigitte Bako, Greg Evigan
Director: Gordon McLennan
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Sleazy mobster Frank (Richard Grieco) cheats sexy girlfriend Macy (Brigette Bako) out of her end of a robbery. Left dying by Frank, Macy proves that she is not only capable of quick recovery, but of sinister revenge. A female version of PAYBACK or POINT BLANK, SWEET REVENGE ups the vengeful ante.
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from 35 members
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The Dead
(1987)
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy
Director: John Huston
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John Huston's last movie is a take on James Joyce's celebrated tale.It is Christmas time in Dublin at the turn of the century, and the snow covered streets appear peaceful and serene. But not too far away, a family is celebrating Twelfth Night. Music, dancing, conversation and wit abound not to ..read more »
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from 287 members
Not available for rental
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Prizzi's Honor
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston
Director: John Huston
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John Huston's black comedy concerns a thick hitman (Jack Nicholson) who falls for a woman who turns out to be in the same business (Kathleen Turner). The romance hits a snag when "the Boss" hires each to rub out the other.
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Under The Volcano
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Director: John Huston
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A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican Day of the Dead ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his ..read more »
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from 244 members
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Annie
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn
Director: John Huston
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The acclaimed and infectious stage musical gets the big screen treatment. Annie is a red-haired mop-top orphan (Aileen Quinn), yearning to break out of her dreary life in an orphanage run by an iron-fisted, boozy matron Miss Hannigan. But the little auburn angel manages to charm billionaire Oliver "..read more »
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from 5,353 members
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Escape to Victory
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
A number of Allied prisoners of war are manipulated into playing in a propaganda soccer match against the German National team in Paris. From there they plan their escape.
A wonderful cast that includes:
Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pele, Max von Sydow and Bobby Moore. A gem of a movie!..read more »
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from 3,379 members
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Wise Blood
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor
Director: John Huston
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War veteran Hazel Motes returns from the war with little waiting for him but the hypocrisies of the over-zealous evangelists that populate his bible-belt hometown. 'Jesus Cares' read the neon-lit signs. With an upbringing of 'fire and brimstone' sermons Hazel has taken enough and so begins his own ..read more »
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The Rhinemann Exchange - Season 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Roddy McDowall, John Huston, Stephen Collins
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Robert Ludlum’s story of a secret diamond exchange in Argentina is a classic World War II thriller. When the allies realize they are in desperate need of a technology possessed by the Nazis, their underground spy network proposes a covert trade with the enemy. The man they’ve chosen for the job is ..read more »
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from 54 members
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The Man Who Would Be King
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer
Director: John Huston
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A late-career masterpiece from legendary director/adventurer Huston and adapted from a Rudyard Kipling story, it stars Sir Sean and Michael Caine as a pair of opportunistic Victorian chappies scheming to take over a remote middle-eastern kingdom, with Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer rounding ..read more »
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from 6,083 members
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The Wind and the Lion
(1975)
Starring: Sean Connery, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: John Milius
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At the turn of the century, a North African sheik kidnaps an American widow and her children in Tangiers, setting off a chain of international incidents. But while she's being held for ransom, the widow finds herself increasingly attracted to her captor. Then, Theodore Roosevelt--with thoughts of ..read more »
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from 30 members
Currently unavailable
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Chinatown
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
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from 27,769 members
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Chinatown - Blu-ray
(1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
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from 34 members
Due for release on 28th May 2012
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(1972)
Starring: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
Director: John Huston
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A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through his romance with a local Mexican girl, to the destruction of the town in ..read more »
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from 62 members
Currently unavailable
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Man in the Wilderness
(1971)
Starring: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon
Director: Richard C Sarafian
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In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilisation and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers ..read more »
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from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Kremlin Letter
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Bibi Anderson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green
Director: John Huston
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When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. Directed by Hollywood maverick John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON), The Kremlin Letter is an interesting ..read more »
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from 46 members
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A Walk With Love And Death
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Angelica Huston, Assi Dayan
Director: John Huston
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From internationally-acclaimed director John Huston (The African Queen, The Misfits, The Night of the Iguana) this 'lost' cult classic stars the director's daughter, Angelica Huston, as one half of the youthful couple who try against all odds to make their love and idealism endure against the ..read more »
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Sinful Davey
(1969)
Starring: John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport
Director: John Huston
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Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is ..read more »
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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Watch now: £2.49
This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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from 2,866 members
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The Bible - In The Beginning
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris
Director: John Huston
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Focusing and dramatizing the first 22 chapters in The Book of Genesis, "The Bible in the Beginning...," exquisitely and diligently explores the origins of mankind. The stories of Adam and Eve, the story of Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Sarah, ..read more »
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The List of Adrian Messenger
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter
Director: John Huston
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. As he goes down the list, the deaths become more recent ..read more »
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from 281 members
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The Misfits
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe
Director: John Huston
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The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce ..read more »
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The Unforgiven
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
Director: John Huston
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious stranger on horseback come into a small community in ..read more »
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from 598 members
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The Barbarian And The Geisha
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita
Director: John Huston
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Barbarian and the Geisha is the true story of Townsend Harris (Wayne), who in 1856 was appointed the first American consul to Japan. Headquartered in Shimoda, Harris discovers that the Japanese thoroughly mistrust the Americans (and, as it turned out, not without reason). It's an uphill climb, but ..read more »
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Heaven Knows Mr Allison
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Director: John Huston
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A two-person character study directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. Both nun and sergeant are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. Mitchum does his ..read more »
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Moby Dick
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
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Beat the Devil
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Director: John Huston
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BEAT THE DEVIL is a whimsical parody of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and John Huston directed). The film tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat, each of whom hope to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of ..read more »
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath
Director: John Huston
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to lose himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and ..read more »
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Red Badge Of Courage
(1951)
Starring: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Arthur Hunnicutt
Director: John Huston
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John Huston's classic film adaptation of the 1895 novel by Stephen Crane about a young man's first experience in war. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War the film ponders the feelings of anxiety and finally outright fear in a boy preparing for battle. Henry (Audie Murphy) loses his ..read more »
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The African Queen
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
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The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship.
Based on ..read more »
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African Queen - Blu-ray
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
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The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship.
Based on ..read more »
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The Asphalt Jungle
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
Director: John Huston
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, a left-handed form of human endeavor. Recently paroled master criminal Erwin Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (..read more »
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Key Largo
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston
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Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
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Humphrey Bogart Classics - The Treasure ...
(1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Dobbs and Curtin meet up in Mexico, and go to work for a contractor, MacClane, who takes them away to remote site and tells them they will be paid when the job is finished. When they are finished, they return to town to find MacClane to get their wages. MacClane gives them a few dollars, and says ..read more »
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Not currently released
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Across the Pacific
(1942)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
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Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martialled in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a stop off in Panama. While there he discovers Japanese plot to attack the Panama Canal along with the Pearl Harbor attack.
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The Maltese Falcon
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Gladys George, Barton MacLane
Director: John Huston
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Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
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...er with complex, interesting characters and a plot that ... well, even director John Huston couldn't make sense of it. The opening scene sets the ultimate cliché, opening ...
