John Huston

Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist injecting blood from his sideshow ape into abducted women. I appreciated the stylish cinematography and cooky mid-nineteenth-century Paris production design. But the talky script (with dialog punch-ups by John Huston!) and lame ape-suit effects proved too much. The scariest thing about this movie was Lugosi’s unibrow.

In the pre-Civil War South, a woman (Bette Davis) uses a man (George Brent) to make her former fiancé (Henry Fonda) jealous.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse features Edward G. Robinson as the titular doctor, a society physician secretly investigating criminal behavior by committing jewel heists then collecting data about his physical state of being, such as blood pressure and heart rate, with plans to publish his results for the good of mankind.

Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a career thief sprung from prison by an aging gangster for a jewel robbery at a resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The job goes south and Earle ends up on the run with a jaded dance hall girl, played by Ida Lupino. Spoilers follow.

Based on the true story of Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a hillbilly sharpshooter reluctant to fight in World War I because of his religion, who became the most decorated soldier in US history.

A private eye (Humphrey Bogart) becomes involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless statue.

Across The Pacific should have been a different movie.

Two men (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) join up with an old prospector (Walter Huston) to search for gold in Mexico.

A cynical army veteran (Humphrey Bogart) and others are held prisoner in a sweltering Florida hotel by a deported gangster (Edward G. Robinson) during a hurricane.

In 1933 Cuba, after her brother is killed by the secret police, a woman (Jennifer Jones) joins an underground plot hatched by an American expatriate (John Garfield).

The story of a heist, from the planning to the execution to the fallout.

A young civil war soldier (Audie Murphy) fights shame after fleeing during his first battle.

During World War I, a spinster missionary (Katherine Hepburn) persuades a boozing riverboat captain (Humphrey Bogart) to use his boat in an attack on the Germans.

A fictionalized biography of stunted artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (José Ferrer).

The captain of a whaling ship (Gregory Peck) obsessively hunts the whale that maimed him.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is an enjoyable film built around a solid script and great performances from the leads.

A recently divorced woman (Marilyn Monroe) gets involved with a cowboy (Clark Gable) struggling to maintain his lifestyle in early 60’s Nevada.

A defrocked priest (Richard Burton) ekes out a living as a tour guide in Mexico with the help of a widower (Ava Gardner).

An older James Bond comes out of retirement to defeat SMERSH.

At a southern army base, a Major’s wife (Elizabeth Taylor) carries on an affair while her husband (Marlon Brando) becomes increasingly obsessed with a young private (Robert Forster).

A veteran spy (Richard Boone) mentors a young intelligence officer (Patrick O’Neal) during a mission to Russia to recover a politically explosive letter.

An aging boxer (Stacy Keach) meets a young boxer (Jeff Bridges) and a barfly (Susan Tyrrell).

In 1937 Los Angeles, a private detective (Jack Nicholson) working a simple adultery case uncovers a massive conspiracy protected by murder.

Two British scoundrels (Sean Connery and Michael Caine) in India set off to plunder Kafiristan, a country no white man has returned from since Alexander.

Reporter John Huston traces a spate of mysterious deaths along the coast of a small California town to a giant octopus.

Once upon a time, an intergalactic criminal called Sateen fled to Earth. On Earth, Sateen mutated and developed psychic powers, which it used to wreak havoc. Another alien defeated Sateen with an army of birds, but not before Sateen impregnated a slew of Earth women. Those women continued Sateen’s legacy through their children.

A young veteran (Brad Dourif), recently returned from war, founds The Church of Christ without Christ in the Deep South.

A precocious orphan (Aileen Quinn) thaws the heart of a millionaire (Albert Finney) only to attract the attention of an orphanage manager (Carol Burnett) and her scheming brother (Tim Curry).

Under the Volcano is an ambitious adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s novel from director John Huston.

While snow falls outside, a group of Dubliners attends party in turn-of-the-century Ireland.