Summary
When "Prizzi's Honor" was released in 1985, venerable film critic Pauline Kael wrote that if John Huston's name hadn't been on the credits she would have thought that "a fresh new talent had burst on the scene, and he'd certainly be the hottest new director in Hollywood."
The larger-than-life director of such classic films as "The Maltese Falcon," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "The Asphalt Jungle" and "The African Queen" had a habit of coming back when he was being counted out. A top-ranking amateur boxer as a teen, he would only make one more film - the sublime "The Dead," based on the James Joyce short story - before he would die at 81 in 1987.See the full content of this document
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Film Fest Homage Set for Hustons
During his long career, the 6-foot-2 Huston directed some 41 films - writing many of them - and acted in more than 20, most memorably as the malevolent father of Faye Dunaway in "Chinatown" (1974). On Saturday, the iconic filmmaker - who had 15 Oscar nominations and two wins - and his family w...
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