Reading about the production behind a Huston film can, at times, be just as enthralling as watching the film itself. Not unlike how Ernest Hemingway’s writings were conjoined inexplicably with the man’s chronic battles with physical injuries and mental illness, Huston’s films often gave us insight into a violent flame that stood on the brink of being snuffed out, and as such, there is a kind of emotional honesty and brutality to Huston’s work. Huston was, in a sense, the sort of hypermasculine auteur modern movie buffs would have an uneasy relationship with, from his famously gruff voice to his devil-may-care attitude to making his movies in reality, he was a Hemingway-esque figure, a man so brimming with masculine energy that he threatened to implode. The Golden Age of Hollywood saw a deluge of filmmakers who are now almost regarded as gods, such as Orson Welles and Billy Wilder, but few can claim to be even as remotely chaotic as John Huston, who had made his feature debut in 1941 and would continue until his death in 1987. An All-Star Cast and a Recipe for Disaster
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