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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
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John Huston - filmography
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Marilyn Monroe At The Movies
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, John Huston
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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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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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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 272 members
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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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Annie
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett
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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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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57%
from 307 members
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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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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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The Man Who Would Be King
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer
Director: John Huston
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Based on the classic story by novelist Rudyard Kipling, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING follows two British adventurers (Sean Connery and Michael Caine), former soldiers in Her Majesty's Service, as they give up the drudgery of eking out a living, legal and illegal, in poverty Raj-ruled India, and set ..read more »
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from 4,938 members
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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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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 52 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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from 31 members
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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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 2,567 members
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Bible, The - 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 151 members
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The Misfits
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe
Director: John Huston
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In John Huston's drama, sophisticated but emotionally crippled Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe, giving what many believe to be her strongest performance) has come to Nevada to gain a quick and easy divorce. When her landlady introduces her to aging, broken cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Gable), she finally ..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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It's 1865 and the southwest is plagued by post-Civil War tensions. But beautiful, winsome Rachel Zachary lives blithely with her mother Matilda on a Texas Panhandle cattle ranch. The Zacharys are a hearty frontier family finally reunited when brothers Ben, Cash and Andy return from a long trip. One ..read more »
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from 493 members
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The Barbarian And The Geisha
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Wayne, Sam Jaffe
Director: John Huston
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Set against the exotic backdrop of 19th Century Japan. John Wayne stars as a diplomat who visits Japan and discovers the pleasures of forbidden love with a beautiful young geisha.
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from 198 members
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Heaven Knows Mr Allison
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Director: John Huston
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A nun who has yet to take her vows and a Marine are stranded together on a remote South Pacific island controlled by Japanese troops. As time passes they learn to survive together and grow closer in understa ding for one another as they await rescue by Ameriacn troops.
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from 251 members
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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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John Huston's fascinating story of Henry De Toulouse-Lautrec, the French artist whose posters for the Moulin Rouge cafe made him famous overnight. Coping with a handicap, talented painter Lautrec throws himself headlong into the 19th century decadence and over-indulgence of the can-can clubs 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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from 13 members
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The African Queen
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
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In John Huston's AFRICAN QUEEN, the boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), saves prim and proper Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set ..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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Directed by John Huston, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is considered by many to be the defining film of the crime oeuvre. After many years in prison, Doc (Sam Jaffe), a seemingly over-the-hill and retired (i.e. rehabilitated) criminal decides upon his release to make one last go of it. His attempts at ..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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Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. He plans to stay at a hotel run by relatives of Nora's, but discovers that it has been taken over by vicious gengster Johnny Rocco. McCloud ..read more »
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The Maltese Falcon
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet
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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John Huston facts
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"There's only one Maltese Falcon." 28 January 2004
...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 ...
Perfect Fit 28 February 2005
