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John Huston has 38 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 2010s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Norma Rae
1979
Drama
The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 13%Max · Included
Moby Dick
1956 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 21%MGM+ · Included
Sergeant York
1941 · Movie · Writer
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Misfits
1961 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 40%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
The Dead
1987 · Movie · Director
Top 47%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.
Dir. John Huston · With Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Dir. John Huston · With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
as Noah · Director
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Dir. John Huston · With Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Dir. John Huston · With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under constant threat of discovery by a ruthless enemy, they hide in a cave and forage for food together. Their forced companionship and the struggle for survival forge a powerful emotional bond between them.
Dir. John Huston · With Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Dir. Raoul Walsh · With Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Dir. John Huston · With Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions. Director John Huston tells their stories with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films.
Dir. John Huston · With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir. William Wyler · With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Dir. John Huston · With Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.
Dir. John Huston · With Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Dir. John Milius · With Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Dir. John Huston · With Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Dir. John Huston · With Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Dir. John Huston · With Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright
The story follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a diminutive creative who resides in a place called Middle-Earth before he is compelled to go on a quest to find a treasure buried deep in the heart of the Lonely Mountain.
Dir. Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass · With Orson Bean, John Huston, Hans Conried
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Dir. Orson Welles · With John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
Dir. John Huston · With Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
Dir. John Huston · With José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Ned Beatty
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Dir. John Huston · With Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
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