John Huston
Author
Language
English
Description
The ill-fated lovers Frankie and Johnny were already legends by 1930, the year of this illustrated drama's publication. The unique interpretation is a collaboration between John Huston, the future director of The Maltese Falcon and other film classics, and Miguel Covarrubias, an influential painter and caricaturist. Huston, who reputedly interviewed a neighbor of the real-life Frankie and Johnny, was inspired to adapt the tale of love gone wrong for...
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality. Shot at Mason General Hospital in Long Island at the end of World War II, Huston follows the stories of seventy-five different soldiers suffering long after their traumatic experiences overseas. Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, the film was suppressed by the U.S. Army until its long-awaited premiere...
4) Chinatown
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is 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 for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Richard Harris stars as an American Northwest frontiersman in 1820 who, badly mangled by a grizzly bear and left alone and unarmed by fellow trappers fleeing renegade Indians, struggles to survive seemingly insurmountable odds and vows to exact revenge on those who abandoned him alone, a MAN IN THE WILDERNESS.
8) Annie
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
10) The Visitor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An intergalactic warrior is in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. THE VISITOR fuses elements of The Omen, Rosemary's Baby and even Star Wars creating the greatest of all '70s mindwarps.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston's film of The Man Who Would be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins out, shoulders squared and with a sly wink -- star as British Sargeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men...
12) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Series
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey. Rose grows determined to assist...
16) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
17) Casino Royale
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this ultimate, psychedelic, star-studded, secret-agent satire, British Intelligence is waning…in every possible way! When the diabolical SMERSH begins killing off Her Majesty's Secret Service, super-agent James Bond (David Niven) recruits six more "James Bonds" to confuse and conquer their enemies. But it won't be easy…they'll have to face an army of irresistibly sexy female operatives, exploding robotic fowl and germ that makes all women beautiful…but...
19) Winter Kills
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Nick (Jeff Bridges) is the son of Pa Kegan (John Huston), a tycoon who heads a powerful business empire, and the brother of an American president who was assassinated 15 years ago. Working in the China seas on one of his father's oil drilling ships, Nick is plunged into the past when a dying man reveals the true identity of his brother's assassin. Nick sets out on a twisting trail to unravel a web of greed and vengeance which leads him to confront...
20) Beat the devil
Pub. Date
200?
Language
English
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits.