Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Were Strangers (Horizon; Columbia) is the latest film by John Huston, maker of the 1948 prizewinner, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, As movie melodramas go, it is above average, but it is not Grade A Huston. Purporting to be a courageous film about Cuba's 1933 revolution, Strangers is, unfortunately, no stranger to some old, slick Hollywood tricks...
...sorry to read in the April 4th issue that Jack Warner disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre and held up its release. This is not true. On the contrary, everything I have done at Warner Bros, in over 25 years has had his complete cooperation. He purchased the story and assigned it to my production schedule. It is also unfair to leave the inference that John Huston parted company with Warners because of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. After that he directed Key Largo...
...Hollywood's own, Warner Brothers came off with much the best of it. Its Treasure of the Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald...
...edged with irony. It was no secret that Warner had allowed Johnny Belinda to be made only over his protests and that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow and had a drink in it, I would toast-Henry Blanke [Treasure...
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