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...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Trail. In his pursuit of Traven, Spota had got almost nowhere until last year. Then, during the filming of Treasure, Director John Huston was confronted one day by a little grey man who called himself Hal Croves. He was Traven's secretary, he said, come in response to Huston's call for advice from the author. Huston guessed that Croves was Traven himself...
When he said so, Croves flinched and began to make the wildest suggestions about the film. "Traven in contact with people," Huston said afterwards, "disintegrates and becomes ridiculous. And he is intelligent enough to know that he is ridiculous." When Huston's story was published (TIME, LIFE, Feb. 2), Croves denied it in caustic letters to both magazines...
Mexican Producer Luis Sánchez Tello, an associate of Huston's, later bumped into Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...