John Huston
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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...
3) Wise blood
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O'Connor's pages, Huston's Wise blood is...
4) The Misfits
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
In their final performances, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe are at their luminous best in John Huston's piercing classic. Divorced and disillusioned, Roslyn Tabor (Monroe) befriends a group of "misfits," including an aging cowboy (Gable), a heartbroken mechanic (Eli Wallach) and a worn-out rodeo rider (Montgomery Clift). Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle, Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom, but when her idealism clashes with their...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in director John Huston's sweeping homage to adventure movies--THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.Author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) tells this tale of two men in search of fame and fortune: Daniel Dravot (Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Caine) set out on a quest that takes them on a series of adventures leading to the remote mountains of Afghanistan, high at the top of the world. The local...
7) Moulin Rouge
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
Winner of two Academy Awards® (1953, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration-Color and Best Costume Design), this visually stunning biography of master artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer, in an outstanding performance) -- a man whose of love of painting and copious amounts of liquor mask a broken heart and a deep longing for love -- is flawlessly directed by the great John Huston.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Under the volcano follows the final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in an Oscar-nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism, Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset) but only further alienating himself. John Huston's ambitious tackling of Malcolm Lowry's...
Publisher
Warner Bros
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.
10) Moby Dick
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) has but one purpose in life - revenge on MOBY DICK, the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him. The obsessed skipper of a whaling boat, Ahab uses his command as an excuse to sail the seven seas in an unrelenting search of his prey while battling a mutinous crew, tropical heat and violent storms in this epic struggle of non-stop fury and inevitable doom.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Starring screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, THE AFRICAN QUEEN tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause - and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between Bogie’s river rat Charlie Allnut and Hepburn’s missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa. Directed by **Academy Award** winner John...
12) Victory
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow and Pelé star with many of the world's star football players in this uplifting story set during World War II as a group of Allied prisoners of war defend their honor and integrity on the football field--while attempting a brazen escape from a German prison camp.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins the hobbit is asked to recover a fabulous treasure stolen from friendly dwarfs. All he must do is brave dark forests, towering mountains, hobbit-eating trolls, huge spiders, a fiery dragon, and more. Fun and amazement await, so join the quest!
14) The Visitor
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
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.
15) Prizzi's honor
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
17) The Unforgiven
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-time Oscar®-nominee John Huston directs the iconic Audrey Hepburn in this tale of forbidden love set against America's most rugged frontier. Born to the Kiowa tribe, but secretly adopted by a white frontier family, Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) becomes the target of lawless brutality when her identity is revealed. When the Kiowa tribe wants her back and the local whites want her dead, her only hope for survival is a man (Burt Lancaster) who must...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as Roy Bean in director John Huston's saga very loosely based on the legend of the West's famous hanging judge who prospers while ruling a desolate West Texas town and worshipping the three loves of his life--an actress he has never met, his faithful mistress and a beer-drinking bear.
19) The dead
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
1987, [2009]
Language
English
Description
Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
20) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.