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Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the Viennese papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist. Susannah York plays a hysteric...
Missouri's John Huston, of course, is a bit of the old sod if ever there was one. In Galway, he has a 26-room Georgian mansion, a trout stream, and a shooting bog. For some time he has been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston...
...intellectual Bluebeard who ravaged the soul of modern man in the name of unmitigated sex. Yet he is also hailed as the Columbus of the unconscious who discovered a new world in the depths of the human mind. Which Freud is the real Freud-Bluebeard or Columbus? Director John Huston plumps for Columbus, and he tells why in this taut intellectual thriller...
...story is not accurate in detail-Cecily, for instance, is a composite patient -but it is resolutely true to the spirit of the man and his work. What's more, it is directed with dominating intelligence. Huston condenses the electric personality of Actress York into an electrocuting charge of neurotic charm. And he even manages to make Actor Clift stop twitching long enough to suggest not ineffectively the Moses of mental health. Behind that bushy beard-who knows?-he may even be acting...
...stars rewarded him with their patronage. John Huston took Evelyn Keyes to Romanoff's one night, and the dinner went off so well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...