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This collection of interviews brings John Huston (1906-1987) vividly to life in his own words. Huston had an extraordinary career spanning more than forty years and fifty films. He talks about: his beginnings in Hollywood as a screenwriter; his approach to directing; the influence of painting upon his camera work; his association with stellar actors, inc. Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Marilyn Monroe; the influence of two authors: James Joyce and Emest Hemingway; As a filmmaker, he particularly identified with the literary masterworks he transformed into cinema, including: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; James Joyce's The Dead; Herman Melville's Moby Dick; Tennessee William's The Night of the Iguana

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Robert Emmet Long was a literature and film scholar and author or editor of more than forty books, including John Huston: Interviews, Liv Ullmann: Interviews, and George Cukor: Interviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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