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.
Wise 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
The 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
De SadeRoger Corman stepped in to direct several scenes in this graphic biopic that stars Keir Dullea as the notorious Marquis de Sade, who reflects on his disturbing formative years in a series of flashbacks. As a child, de Sade witnesses his uncle (John Huston) sexually abuse a servant girl, who's then... Read More
