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In Reply to: John Huston's Legacy posted by Buckeye on February 17, 2005 at 09:08:33:
Hack? Once in a while. Think of "Across the Pacific".Whore? Well, what Hollywood director hasn't been? Sam Peckinpah used to boast that he was just a good whore who'd been kicked around (although as Pauline Kael points out, Sam wasn't, he would take routine jobs and try to transform them into art and damned if he wasn't succeessful at least most of the time).
Artist? Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Beat the Devil, Prizzi's Honor, The Dead and probably half a dozen more. I have only seen "A Walk with Love and Death" once, on the CBS Late Night at the Movies back in the mid-70s, and I still remember it with great affection.
Huston's weakest beats 98% of most people's best.
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Gee,I have a documentary on Huston, where he mentons that while shooting ACROSS THE PACIFIC, he left Bogie tied to a chair and surrounded by armed gurards, both inside and outside the house...about half-way through the film.
He was then called into active duty with the Army (where he made some REALLY outstanding documentaries)...he gleefully left the director who finished the film with the problem of figuring out how Bogart was to escape.
I agree with all here...a real artist!
Thanks,
Gary
I love that story!And you're right, Huston's war documentaries, especially "Let There Be Light", are absolutely amazing.
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