John Huston Filmography

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

John Huston: War Stories

Actors: John Huston

Synopsis: During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unforeseeable results: they tapped John Huston to shoot war documentaries with an expressly patriotic spin. Few could guess the degree to which Huston's documentaries would depict the sheer brutality and Read More

Mr. North

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: A young man freshly graduated from Yale (Anthony Edwards) moves to Rhode Island and finds himself with a strange power: the ability to create mild electric shocks through his hands. He begins to make friends around the community, and tries to help those around him by healing several minor Read More

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The Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Rachel Dowling, Cathleen Delaney, Helena Carroll

Synopsis: The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and Julia Morkan (Cathleen Delany). At the home of these Read More

Mr. Corbett's Ghost

Synopsis: In this ghostly comedy set on New Year's Eve, 1767, a dissatisfied young worker makes a bargain with a soul collector who quickly dispatches with the fellow's boss. But the young man's troubles are far from over as the boss's ghost cannot keep from meddling, and the soul collector has come to Read More

Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema - John Huston and the Dubliners

Actors: John Huston, Anjelica Huston, Tony Huston, Roberto Silvi, Donal McCann, Tom Shaw

Synopsis: The legendary filmmaker John Huston is the focus of this documentary as he directs his last film The Dead. Taken from a story by James Joyce, Huston insist his actors are well-prepared while allowing for active participation from the performers. Huston's son Tony collaborated with his father on Read More

Momo

Actors: Radost Bokel, John Huston, Bruno Stori, Leopoldo Trieste, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Momo (Radost Bokel) is a ten-year-old orphan girl who tries to save her village from the evil clutches of the Grey Men in this uneven children's story. Led by Chief Grey Man (Armin Muller-Stahl), the Grey Men have managed to make the villagers give up all their leisure time. Momo must get to the Read More

50 Years of Action!

Actors: Stanley Ackerman, Woody Allen, John A. Alonzo, Warren Beatty

Synopsis: One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year history of the Directors Guild of America. Formed at a time when people were still fighting for unions in the United States, the guild also had its problems when the studios Read More

Herman Melville: Damned Paradise

Synopsis: Herman Melville is profiled in this video on the life of the literary giant. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Directed by William Wyler

Actors: William Wyler, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Lillian Hellman, Gregory Peck, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips from many of Wyler's better-known works, such as Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, and Funny Girl. A long interview with the director himself (conducted a few days before he died) Read More

The Black Cauldron

Actors: Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures produced this ambitious, animated tale of sorcery and swordfighting. Taran (voice of Grant Bardsley), is an assistant to Dallben (voice of Freddie Jones), a pigkeeper in the mythical land of Prydain. Taran longs to be a knight, and he's given his chance to live out his dream Read More

Prizzi's Honor

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, William Hickey, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his last movies. The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Pilot

Actors: Steven Bauer, Ned Beatty, Melanie Griffith, Kim Novak, John Huston, Bianca Rose

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock Presents is the portmanteau pilot film for the subsequent TV revival of Hitchcock's celebrated anthology series of the 1950s and '60s. Four short tales are presented, each of them remakes of earlier Alfred Hitchcock programs. "Incident in a Small Jail," originally presented in Read More

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Actors: George Stevens, Jr., George Stevens, Montgomery Clift, Brandon de Wilde, Fred Astaire, James Dean, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Sam Jaffe, Jean Arthur

Synopsis: The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject intimately: the film was written, produced and directed by George Stevens Jr. Utilizing pristine-quality filmclips and interviews, Stevens Jr. details Stevens Sr.'s rise Read More

Notes From Under The Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Unlike Christian Blackwood's documentary covering this identical subject, Gary Conklin has not gone into depth on the making of Under The Volcano but stays with views of the camera crew, director, and actors at work, as well as some comical scenes of real-life prostitutes (who played prostitutes Read More

Under the Volcano

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his Read More

Observations under the Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Michael Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Director Christian Blackwood filmed this documentary of John Huston directing his actors and camera crew -- and taking time out -- as he created the 1984, award-winning Under the Volcano. Best for film aficionados, Blackwood shows how scenes were developed, run through, and then completed -- and Read More

American Caesar: General Douglas McArthur 1880-1964, Vol. 1 - I Shall Return

Synopsis: This series is based on the book of the same name by William Manchester. Douglas MacArthur was probably the most controversial American general of World War II and the decades that followed it. His presence shaped the modern American military, and his clashes with civilian authority shaped the Read More

A Minor Miracle

Synopsis: The orphans of St. Francis School for Boys are about to be evicted from their home by a crooked town commission. With their guardian, a priest (John Huston), the group must unite to save themselves and the home. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Young Giants

Synopsis: In this syrupy drama, a terminally ill priest continues trying to keep his orphanage from closing. Fortunately, a rousing soccer game (featuring the legendary player Pele) saves the orphanage ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

American Caesar: General Douglas McArthur 1880-1964, Vol. 3 - Death of an Empire

Synopsis: This series is based on the book of the same name by William Manchester. Douglas MacArthur was probably the most controversial American general of World War II and the decades that followed it. His presence shaped the modern American military, and his clashes with civilian authority shaped the Read More

American Caesar: General Douglas McArthur 1880-1964, Vol. 4 - The Last Shogun

Synopsis: This series is based on the book of the same name by William Manchester. Douglas MacArthur was probably the most controversial American general of World War II and the decades that followed it. His presence shaped the modern American military, and his clashes with civilian authority shaped the Read More

Lovesick

Actors: Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Saul (Dudley Moore), a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients. Chloe has already devastated one psychoanalyst, and although the venerable Freud himself (Alec Guinness) appears to counsel Saul in his worst moments, the man continues Read More

American Caesar: General Douglas McArthur 1880-1964, Vol. 2 - The Green Hell

Synopsis: This series is based on the book of the same name by William Manchester. Douglas MacArthur was probably the most controversial American general of World War II and the decades that followed it. His presence shaped the modern American military and his clashes with civilian authority shaped the Read More

Cannery Row

Actors: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: This highly anecdotal film centers upon Doc (Nick Nolte), a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood denizens, trying to conceal a troubled past. Across from Doc's digs stands the local bordello, the Bear Flag Restaurant. Across the entrance ambles Read More

Annie

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: This family classic is adapted from the Broadway musical, which was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. During the Great Depression in New York City, a plucky red-haired scrapper named Annie (Aileen Quinn) is the voice of hope for her fellow orphans who live under the supervision of Read More

Head On

Actors: Sally Kellerman, Stephen Lack, John Huston, Lawrence Z. Dane, Jean-Peter Linton

Synopsis: This isn't the Fatal Attraction, but instead a 1980 Canadian erotic melodrama. Psychologist Sally Kellerman meets teacher Stephen Lack when both are involved in an automobile accident. As their relationship deepens, Lack coerces Kellerman into a series of bizarre sexual games. Things get out of Read More

Victory

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Werner Roth

Synopsis: John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner of war camp, Major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the camp commander, once a member of the German national soccer team, decides to put together a soccer match between a Read More

The Return of the King

Actors: Orson Bean

Synopsis: The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins, vows to destroy the Ring, even if it costs him his own life. He carries the Ring to the Read More

Il Visitatore

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail

Synopsis: Teetering between camp, silly, and derivative, this undistinguished horror film by Giulio Paradisi, aka Michael J. Paradise, stars several respectable actors. Mel Ferrer is an Atlanta notable who is mysteriously in communication with some demonic forces. These evil powers want him to father a Read More

Agee

Synopsis: The life and work of writer James Agee provides the substance of this engrossing documentary by Ross Spears. The director puts together a portrait of Agee with excerpts from his prose and interviews with the people who either worked with him or provided material for his books. Among those Read More

Phobia

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, Susan Hogan, Alexandra Stewart, Robert O'Ree

Synopsis: In this grim horror movie, the only one ever made by director John Huston, patients from a psychiatrist's phobia group are being murdered in ways that reflect their deepest fears. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wise Blood

Crew: Director

Actors: Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Set in the Deep South during the postwar era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as an aimless veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher (for a questionable concern called "The Church Wihout Christ") principally because he hasn't anything better lined up. Dourif links up with a veteran of Read More

Jaguar Lives!

Actors: Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine

Synopsis: Karate champion Joe Lewis stars as a special agent on a worldwide mission to put the skids on a drug cartel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Winter Kills

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Based on a novel by the iconoclastic Richard Condon (of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame), Winter Kills was one of the vanguard efforts in the "JFK conspiracy" school of literature. Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to Read More

Il Grande Attaco

Actors: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of this European war flick was Umberto Lenzi. Orson Welles narrates this crazy-quilt of stock battle footage and hapharzardly staged new scenes. A lot of potent acting Read More

The Bermuda Triangle

Actors: John Huston, Andrés García, Gloria Guida, Hugo Stiglitz, Claudine Auger, Carlos East

Synopsis: This 1978 horror-lite opus was the work of René Cardona Jr., who was a creative force behind other tabloid-inspired efforts like Survive! and Guyana, Cult of the Damned. This less-exploitative entry in his filmography utilizes the infamous legends revolving around the many disappearances in the Read More

The Hobbit

Synopsis: J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his unexpected adventures came to life in this animated, televised adaptation by Rankin-Bass Productions. Enthusiasts of Tolkien's lengthy and more demanding Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as adult readers of The Hobbit, may be Read More

The Word

Synopsis: Word is about the newly discovered text that is allegedly written by the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It the document is genuine, it would throw the world's theological community into chaos. David Janssen plays an archaeologist who travels to Italy to verify the document's origins. ~ Stephen Read More

I Tentacoli

Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ovidio Assonitis, who had ripped off The Exorcist with his successful Chi Sei? (1974) here turns his attentions to the post-Jaws ecokill film with silly results. The titular beast kills swimmers and divers before attacking a sailing regatta (an idea which, paradoxically, was Read More

Delirium

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Debi Chaney, Turk Cekovsky, Barron Winchester, Nick Panouzis

Synopsis: A vigilante secret-watch group works to avenge miscarriages of justice by killing crooks, but one of their agents turns out to be a serial killer. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Angela

Actors: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, Luce Guilbault

Synopsis: In this subpar Canadian film, Sophia Loren is Angela, a prostitute who has decided to become a waitress after she gets pregnant by Ben Kincaid (John Vernon) and needs a better way to support her baby. When Ben gets back from service in the Korean War, he does not believe Angela's little boy is Read More

The Rhinemann Exchange

Actors: Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of Read More

Sherlock Holmes in New York

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Roger Moore, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes in New York is a topnotch TV movie starring Roger Moore (surprisingly effective as Holmes) and Patrick MacNee (an intelligent, compassionate Watson). The Great Detective travels to the Big Apple of the 1890s to thwart arch-villain Moriarty, who plans to devalue the world's gold Read More

Independence

Crew: Director

Actors: William Atherton, Pat Hingle, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: Historical overview of the events and personalities involved in the creation of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Hollywood on Trial

Actors: John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Joseph McCarthy

Synopsis: Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary concerning the "communist witch-hunt" era. In the years following World War II, several ambitious Washington politicos were anxious to dissipate the last traces of Roosevelt's New Read More

The Wind and the Lion

Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the Read More

Breakout

Actors: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston, Randy Quaid, Sheree North

Synopsis: The star-director team of Charles Bronson and Tom Gries (Breakheart Pass) combine their efforts again on Breakout. Bronson plays Nick Colton, a reckless pilot who heads to an unnamed South American country, in hopes of rescuing imprisoned Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall). Villain Harris Wagner (John Huston Read More

The Man Who Would Be King

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

Synopsis: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination Read More

Chinatown

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman

Synopsis: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) starts nosing around Cross's water diversion scheme. That proves to be the ominous lesson of Chinatown, Roman Polanski Read More

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston

Synopsis: The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey Planet, this science fiction film was the least-liked by the series' legion of fans. Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the rebellious intelligent chimp of the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Read More

The Mackintosh Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. Read More

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Crew: Director

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. In a tiny West Texas town, Roy Bean is an imperious, self-appointed judge whose intimidation keeps the local residents living in fear. The townspeople finally manage to tie him to Read More

Fat City

Crew: Director

Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto

Synopsis: With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) Read More

Rufino Tamayo: The Sources of His Art

Synopsis: The narration and poetry of Octavio Paz, spoken by John Huston, is set against the inspiration environment of Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Run

Crew: Director

Actors: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish VanDevere, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: George C. Scott stars in The Last Run as an aging mob driver hoping to make one last big haul and retire. Harry Garmes (Scott) is persuaded by his old cronies to drive escaped criminal Paul Ricard (Tony Musante) and his girlfriend, Claudio Schemer (Trish VanDevere), across Spain to safety. Garmes Read More

The Deserter

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu

Synopsis: A captain convicted of deserting his cavalry (Bekim Fehmiu) is released to lead a band of deputized renegades. Together, the force must defeat a band of Apache braves. The film was released to video as Ride to Glory. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Man in the Wilderness

Actors: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Not a sequel to Richard Harris' A Man Called Horse as is sometime alleged, 1971's Man in the Wilderness nonetheless bears a marked resemblance to that earlier film. Star Harris plays a trapper who joins a Northwest Territory expeditionary group. Left for dead after running afoul of a grizzly bear