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...France's Ministry of Defense, Heartbreak tells the story of the famed French battalion in Korea. The soldiers of the battalion are the cast, the actual 1952 battleground is the setting. The director and a cameraman were wounded by Communist fire while filming it. Not since John Huston's San Pietro (1945) has a film shown in the U.S. come so close to capturing the painful reality of foxhole...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote while away an hour and a half with one of the shaggiest stories ever put on film: the year's orneriest picture, and one of its funniest (TIME, March...
...year boomed to a close in a thunder of publicity for the big holiday releases, two pictures stood out as notable Hollywood productions-and neither was made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
...French-made Fanfan la Tulipe, show some charmingly unexpected dimples in the bath scene from Beauties of the Night (seen in full by the Queen of Britain, but sharply censored for U.S. moviegoers), and play her cheesecake for comedy-with a side dish of macaronic English-in John Huston's Beat the Devil...