The Legacy of John Huston: A Perspective Full Episode

A pioneer of film noir, westerns, war films and epic dramas. This British documentary explores the life and works, which include classics such as 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', and 'The African Queen'.
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[@audreydaleski1067]

When the film says John Huston, one stands to pay respect.

[@StephiSensei26]

Studying the works of John Huston is such a pleasure and a challenge. It is a library of movie-making and great story-telling.

[@saidahamelin3118]

Very enjoyable. I had forgotten just how talented he was. Movies were art in those days, now it's all about special effects. Thank you.

[@catofthecastle1681]

And you think Huston wouldn’t have used special effects if he could have? You can’t use that as your analogy!

[@saidahamelin3118]

@@catofthecastle1681 meeeow kitty cat, you are not the boss of me!

[@cicolasnage5684]

Special effects? Lol you dummy almost all movies use special effects. Special effects aren’t relegated to big action adventure movies. Something as small as taking a camera out digitally that was in a reflection. Is considered a special day for effect. Hell Christopher Nolan uses in camera special effects Quit trying so hard to be a cool art house nerd. It’s lame.

[@Alice-Not-In-Chains]

Loved him as Noah, and as Director in the Dino DE Laurentis production of “The Bible “. In awe of the quality of everything necessary to create a 🎥 film.

[@dotsyjmaher]

This is beautiful documentary of an astounding man...thank you

[@bikefixer]

The first film I loved as a boy was Moby Dick. I remember when it would come on TV, they would call it, "John Huston's Moby Dick." I wondered who John Huston was since he wasn't in the movie. Not too much later I learned the role of a director and their job on movies, and years later I became one. Largely thanks to John Huston.

[@alabasterindigo]

Grew up with his voice work in the Hobbit, Return of the King, and The Black Cauldron, and only discovered today that he was a director! What a talented man.

[@christinepaige2575]

It's a shame that no mention was made of "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison", a superb film. But then, this documentary would have to be many hours long to do full justice to the subject.

[@philiphalpenny3783]

No mention of 'Fat City', 'Key Largo' or 'Under the Volcano' either...

[@queenslander954]

Robert Mitchum in ‘heaven knows’ with Huston at the helm was a real treat

[@ericmalone3213]

Great to see Angela Allen here. But this documentary is bloody blinkered, with Zero Mention of The Asphalt Jungle; Reflections In A Golden Eye; The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean, Fat City; Prizzi's Honor, & The Dead. What the hell?

[@maryeliason1504]

A real unique character & love his movies. Thank you for this.

[@defnu]

My channel is full of this "Huston" style directing, lol, I kid. Very nice piece!!

[@nensi1972]

...Huston , great director, and great persona, one of my favorite, ...look for his autobiography, if anyone is interested...

[@michaelwertzy9808]

The "Great White Hunter". And he doesn't need no stinking badges.

[@robinmccullars4971]

Thank you for that.

[@janethayes5941]

His character was creepy in Chinatown. 😯

[@legend9948]

Rightly so

[@nathansmith7809]

I actually like The Visitor too

[@audreydaleski1067]

Walter was in Rain, I believe.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

No mention of the last film he did, in Ireland. A shirt film, the name of which I’ve forgotten ... but one of his very best. It’s a triumph.

[@bikefixer]

James Joyce's The Dead. Ironically, it wasn't filmed in Ireland, but in Hollywood. Huston was too ill to travel by 1986, so they built Dublin streets and houses in a studio.

[@twomindz79]

The dead 1987

[@audreydaleski1067]

Bogie is - great.

[@audreydaleski1067]

Laid back, not lazy.

[@hauntedhose]

Good doc…especially like the choice of clips 😅

[@susandoerr3896]

i knew a 90 something man, father to a 6 year old boy, his only that looked just like you. Nice.

[@nathansmith7809]

Lawgiver who knows about the future!

[@mares3841]

!

[@CornishCreamtea07]

So those Cigars he smoked, they were actually just large cigarettes with tobacco leaf coloured paper.

[@mattlawrence1932]

First Chaplin & Milestone & Walsh & Hawkes , then Ford & Houston & Corman , then Kubrick & Penn & Leone & Cimino , ....then De Palma , Coppola , Scorsese , Spielberg , & Cameron.... & then Eastwood , Tarantino , Finchter & Paul W Anderson !!!!

[@briangoldy8784]

Key Largo.. was a Good Film..

[@robertgiles9124]

What is so damn ODD here...they leave out his film; Reflections in a Golden Eye. They talk about Huston as if he was a Homophobe YET he directed a film written by a famous Gay man (Tennessee Williams) which featured a Repressed homosexual played by Brando. One of the strangest films ever. Why is it left out?

[@philiphalpenny3783]

He was fast friends with Truman Capote also...

[@rosedrop4959]

I liked fat city yeh❤

[@queenslander954]

No Key Largo .. means no doco.

[@danielbisson8032]

cigarettes killed him

[@philiphalpenny3783]

Dick Cavett said to him at the end of a 1972 interview: " i wish you wouldn't inhale those ( cigars) as your one of our finest artists"...

[@plasticweapon]

when he was 81. you have to die from something.

[@capscow_5398]

ya 40,50 years hope the young kids see this...highly addictive on the set of the dead he was dragging a iron lung just to breath i just love this kid....

[@veritas6335]

Oh for gods sake. If you refuse to even pronounce the man's name correctly, you have no business making a documentary about someone. His name isn't "Hooston." It's pronounced Houston, like the city. LONG U. NOT "HOOSTON!"

[@capscow_5398]

the uglyest woman in the room is a unicorn to huston....

[@phalgunar6753]

This man says "i think"so many times..you know its waste of time to watch this John h.documetry There r mny othrs elsewhere

[@errol-ih4jy]

DIDNT LIKE HOUSTON, HE LIED ABOUT ERROL FLYNNS FIGHT WITH HIM, FLYNN KNOCKED HIM DOWN AND DIDNT KICK HIM WHEN HE WAS DOWN, HOUSTON SAID HE LAYED HIM OUT WITH ONE PUNCH, FLYNN WON THAT FIGHT, AND FLYNN SENT A STUNT MAN TO HOSPITAL, HE WAS A GREAT FIGHTER, HOUSTON LOST THAT FIGHT WITH ERROL.

[@plasticweapon]

who cares? everybody's not an errol flynn fan boy.

[@hankworden3850]

@@plasticweapon YOU MUST REPLY IN ALL CAPS@@@@@@@!!!!

[@njuham]

Why no mention of Prizzi's Honor? Why leave that out?