The List of Adrian Messenger

I have this feeling that John Huston kept on with the directing gig because it paid him to hang out with his famous friends, and the hidden cameos (revealed showily in its final moments, breaking the fourth wall) at the end of The List of Adrian Messenger is probably the best evidence for that. There are certainly other elements in the film that would obviously draw Huston’s attention (the setting and the fox hunting for sure), but the actual mystery in this wannabe mystery obviously wasn’t ...