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Probably if Huston had been a trifle more pretentious, had more readily underlined his intelligence, he would still be an acclaimed culture hero...
...also too willing to compromise in order to make the films he wished to. Kauffmann sententiously stated once that the Huston of Sierra Madre would have burned the script to Moby Dick rather than have Gregory Peck star as Captain Ahab...
...hoping to leave his critics far behind him. Unfortunately, the critics now feel free to attack whenever possible. When receiving The Bible, most of the big-time New York critics waxed nostalgic for the DeMille days of yore. (Gary Arnold, in the now defunct Diplomat, recognized the great irony: Huston and DeMille were the legitimate and bastard heirs to Griffith's narrative film style. Huston translated it into lean, expressive prose, DeMille into doggerel,) Such creditable films as Reflections in a Golden Eve or A Walk with Love and Death are ignored altogether...
...paperback edition of Lillian Ross' Picture reminds us of the legendary stature Huston once attained. The story of the making of Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, it is a tragicomic chronicle of the director's attempt to make a film which was conceived in form and substance to cut against the traditional grain, at a time when convention-breaking was not fashionable; at a time when studio heads could still dictate how a film should be produced...
...Huston purported to make a film which showed the irony of wartime courage, "courage" being as irrationally motivated as "cowardice." And he remained faithful to Crane, not adding extraneous dialogue or dramatic effect, filming much of the material from a subjective viewpoint...