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John Huston: Withholding Judgment

13 May, 2009 (15:03) | John Huston, by David Coursen | By: David Coursen

[Parts of the article previously appeared in Cinemonkey and as program notes for Cinema 7]
Film critics have never quite known what to make of John Huston; whether his work has been praised or disparaged, itt has almost always inspired critical overkill. After a striking debut with The Maltese Falcon (1941) and a pair of studio [...]