John Huston: A Retrospective

I found John Huston’s filmography to be really frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, he made some classics, but he also made more than his fair share of duds. However, what frustrated me most was this collection of perfectly fine, okay movies that could have used just a bit more in a rewrite to elevate them into something special. I felt this acutely because I had recently finished watching the work of William Wyler, and Wyler never fell into that.

I bring up Wyler because Huston actually started ...