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The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Who played Captain Jacoby (the guy who staggers in with the falcon) in the John Huston version of The Maltese Falcon? Highlight the area below for the answer: Veteran actor Walter Huston, the director’s father
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"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... sunset of ships passing in the night and the attraction of what has been missed . For Dodsworth ( Walter Huston ), the trip is an adventure, eye-opening in the possibilities of what the world has to offer . For his wife Fran ( Ruth Chatterton ), it is an opportunity to move among the elite, whose charm and manners are nothing like her folksy husband's. Eight years her elder, she resents...
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Rick Sincere News & Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... call it "FDR's fascist fantasy film," because it is about a U.S. President (played by Walter Huston) who assumes dictatorial powers in order to end the Great Depression and ends up bullying Congress and threatening foreign nations in order to get them to sign a treaty he favors. Huston's Jud Hammond resembles Hitler more than Roosevelt, and the film's release date...
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Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... for Russia in World War II, the film was directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca ) and stars Walter Huston as a U.S. ambassador who praises Dictator Josef Stalin. After the war, Mission to Moscow was cited as evidence of Communist infiltration of Hollywood during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. TCM's Shadows of Russia event was conceived and created by New York...
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Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Dragonwyck is a 1946 film directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Gene Tierney , Vincent Price , Walter Huston , Spring Byington , Anne Revere , Harry Morgan and Jessica Tandy . It's more gothic romance than horror, but it shows up in some of the horror film lists I've seen. Youtube has it online divided into 10 sections. part 1: part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... first time in some 70-odd years, the fabled missing scenes. Paula Félix-Didier and her husband did Walter Huston’s dance from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre . Probably. Immediately word began to spread that this new footage was actually essential to understanding the film, and several key plot points would now be seen in a new light. How exciting is that? Finally we’ll know how...
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Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... first time in some 70-odd years, the fabled missing scenes. Paula Félix-Didier and her husband did Walter Huston’s dance from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre . Probably. Immediately word began to spread that this new footage was actually essential to understanding the film, and several key plot points would now be seen in a new light. How exciting is that? Finally we’ll know how...
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look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
one of the cutest animals. here is the moment when i reached for my camera while watching 'the treasure of the sierra madre.' those hands belong to the astonishingly great walter huston. directed by his son, john huston, walter won an academy award for this role. think of it, an oscar and a little pig!