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London reporters jumped at the chance to interview Hollywood Director John Huston, his stars Humphrey Bogart (with wife Lauren Bacall "going along for the ride") and Katharine Hepburn, all on their way to Tanganyika to film C. S. Forester's The African Queen. As the crowd met for noon cocktails and questions, Miss Hepburn jumped at the chance to get off some inside comments (which saw solemn print next day). Dressed in an oatmeal-colored slack suit and flat brown shoes, easily stealing the scene from Mrs. Bogart who wore only a black & white Paris suit, she burbled...
...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston's clinical account of a $1,000,000 burglary and what makes the burglars tick (TIME, June...
Based on a novel by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, the movie tells the story of a headstrong filly (Barbara Stanwyck) with a father fixation. The old man (the late Walter Huston) is a ripsnorting, tyrannical cattle baron who is so absolute a local sovereign that he even prints his own money. When Huston imports a Washington society matron (Judith Anderson) whom he plans to marry, Barbara works herself up to hurling a pair of scissors at the intruder's face. Banished for her impulsiveness, Barbara plots to wreck Huston and seize his domain. She recruits help from...
...enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried to write like Eugene O'Neill...