“I know what gold does to men’s souls.” Directed by John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a psychological action thriller set in Mexico in 1925. Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston (John’s father) play Fred, Bob and Howard, three grizzled prospectors who are thrown together and head to the hills in search…
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The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
‘The Battle of San Pietro’, directed by John Huston in 1945, is an American war documentary following the Allied campaign to liberate Italy. The film follows infantrymen as they fight up the steep hills of the Naples countryside to capture the town of San Pietro. The film was controversial on release because of its explicit…
The African Queen (1951)
“I don’t know why the Germans would want this God-forsaken place.” ‘The African Queen’, directed by John Huston in 1951, is an American adventure movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, a Methodist missionary in German East Africa in the 1910s. When war breaks out, Sayer escapes her village after it…
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