griggs's - John Huston Ranked List
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)El tesoro de la Sierra Madre
Ranked at No. 30 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 all-time greatest American films, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' is a genuine masterpiece that went on to win 3 Academy Awards. Bogart gives a tremendous performance as a vicious down-and-out wage worker who stakes his meagre earnings on a gold-prospecting expedition. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
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With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) and keeps trying to make a boxing comeback, but his personal demons repeatedly overpower his ambitions. Meanwhile, fellow Stockton, CA resident and budding fighter Ernie (Jeff Bridges) takes Tully's advice to join trainer Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto)'s gym and make something of himself. Learning the tough lesson that winning is not as easy as it sounds, Ernie is still determined to get what he can out of boxing and, unlike Tully, not let disappointments get the best of him. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)The Gent from Frisco / The Knight of Malta
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this cracking mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
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The African Queen (1951)African Queen
Take two legendary co-stars, a rip-roaring boys own story, a fearless director and an eventful location shoot in Zaire and Uganda and you get 'The African Queen' - the best loved of all adventure movies. During World War One, a hard drinking river trader (Humphrey Bogart) and a prim missionary (Katharine Hepburn) are forced to take a hazardous river expedition together, encountering tropical hazards, nefarious German officers and a surprising romance. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
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As one of a disparate group of fortune-seekers bound for Africa, hard-up Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) faces the swindling machinations of his fellow travellers as they await passage from a picturesque port on Italy's Amalfi coast. But with scheming aplenty, will this motley crew miss the boat completely? - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)The Asphalt Jungle (The City Under the City)
You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc (Sam Jaffe) conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. As in 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in 'The Asphalt Jungle', a renowned tale of dishonour among thieves whose cast includes Sam Jaffe as Doc and Sterling Hayden as Doc's unflappable gundel. Louis Calhern portrays Emmerich, the shady lawyer for whom "crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavour". And rising star Marilyn Monroe grabs everyone's attention as the doxie who briefly provides Emmerich with the most gorgeous alibi ever to reach the screen. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
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Sean Connery and Michael Caine - chins out, shoulders squared and with an occasional sly wink - star as British sergeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men like these two. Now they are out to build empire of their own: they're venturing into remote Kafiristan to become rich as kings. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
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A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted, boozy moll. In Huston's hands, it becomes a powerful, sweltering classic. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
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November 1st, 1938, the Day of the Dead in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney), British Consul to Mexico, has just quit his job and takes solace with his best friend - a bottle of booze - in an effort to forget his problems, and that of the world. Whilst the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Nazism in Germany have fuelled Mexican nationalism, he is also still bitter after the divorce from his actress wife,Yvonne (Jacqueline Bisset). Despite writing to him several times, without any reply, about her intentions to rekindle their marriage,Yvonne decides to return to Cuernavaca on the Day of the Dead. But Geoffrey's younger half-brother, Hugh (Anthony Andrews) also arrives in order to help his brother get sober and live his life again. But a self-destructive drunk is not an easy man to reclaim... - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
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Escape to Victory (1981)Victory
This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another "proof" of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pele, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for 'Victory'! - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pelé
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Casino Royale (1967)James Bond 007 - Casino Royale
Things are looking decidedly bleak for British Intelligence, in both senses of the term. Smersh has begun to sabotage global stability; no less than 11 agents have been lost; and to make matters worse, our greatest secret agent, 007 is languishing in stately retirement. M (John Huston) - together with the heads of the CIA (from Washington D.C.) and KGB (from the U.S.S.R.) - have only one hope: to bring Sir James Bond (David Niven) out of retirement and into the field. Finding himself pitched against an opposition of fiendish intensity - an array of female secret agents armed with explosive grouse; a baccarat-playing illusionist (Orson Welles); and a neurotic megalomaniac (Woody Allen) - Bond launches his brilliant plan... 'from now on, all agents will be known as James Bond, including the girls'. Baccarat-playing expert, Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers), is selected to penetrate the heart of the conspiracy, but first he must attend the James Bond training school. With a twisting, turning plot of almost surreal complication, and a cast to light up the galaxy, 'Casino Royale' is a quintessential, classic Bond extravanganza. - Director:
- Val Guest
- Cast:
- David Niven, Robert Rietty, Peter Sellers
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San Pietro lies in the valley between two hills, Monte Lungo and Monte Sammucro. It's just off Route 6, the road to Rome, and was vital to the Allied cause during their push into Italy. The battle for San Pietro saw newly re-formed Italian Forces working with the Allies for the first time. They suffered appalling losses in what quickly became a battle of epic proportions. The 'Italian Cemetry' is a monument to their exceptional courage and heroism. The town was ultimately destroyed. Defeated German forces withdrew to Cassino leaving the victorious Allies one step nearer their goal: the collapse of Mussolini's Italy. Today, the new town of San Pietro is about a kilometre and a half from the ruins of the old one. The story of the spectacular battle that led to its creation is vividly portrayed in this awesome film. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- John Huston, Mark W. Clark
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