John Huston: A Statement of Purpose

John Huston is another one of those filmmakers who had an appreciable affect on the cinematic culture in America through a handful of films. His first directing job was actually filming the duel scene in William Wyler’s Jezebel. He went on to have his own directing career from the early 40s to the late 80s, and he made more than forty films, but people mostly remember only a handful.

There’s The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, and The Man Who Would Be ...