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Article: John Huston, RIP. (obituary)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- October 9, 1987
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John Huston, RIP
FILM DIRECTORS generally have a specialty or two, which enables that most procrustean of disciplines, contemporary film criticism, to classify them with ease. The trouble with John Huston (1906-1987) was that he was good at too many things to be crammed into any critical pigeonhole. He was duly accused of eclecticism, pessimism, superficiality, lack of a personal style. Actually, he had the gift of molding his style to what the story, the characters, or the author whom he was bringing to the screen demanded. You could trust the teller as much as the tale, for they were one.
Very young, he became a highly rated boxer in California, then ...
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