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...Time to Come (by Howard Koch & John Huston; produced by Otto Preminger) leafs back to an instructive page of U.S. history. It tells the sorry tale of Woodrow Wilson's vision of a just peace and powerful League of Nations after World War I, of the conniving that crippled that vision at Versailles, and the opposition that destroyed it at home...
...That Money Can Buy (Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, James Craig, Anne Shirley; TIME...
...Walter Huston plays the Devil with demoniacal glee. Disguised as Mr. Scratch, a quizzical Yankee trader with a duck hunter's cap, bristly sideburns and stubble beard, he is a puckish tempter. Whether he is getting Daniel plastered, playing the bass drum in the village band, or spryly nibbling a carrot, he seems to be hugely enjoying his part. He is the kind of Devil most people would like to know...
...passel of furtive folk vigorously committing homicide to get hold of a bejeweled statuette of a falcon may sound old-hat to present-day cinemagoers, but Director John Huston makes their melodramatic activities as immediate as a shot in a dark room. His characters keep close to Hammett's originals, who in turn are so close to real life that what is constantly about to happen to them (and often does) becomes at times downright unbearable...
...good job he did with the Falcon, the Brothers Warner have slipped John Marcellus Huston the rewarding assignment of directing the studio's neurotic Bernhardt, Bette Davis, in her next picture. A son who does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture...