Beat the Devil

John Huston

Billy (Humphrey Bogart), Maria (Gina Lollobrigida) & Julius (Peter Lorre) are among a number of travelers stranded in Italy en route to Africa. Their goal, along with other shifty cohorts, is to lay claim to property that is supposedly rich with uranium.


The Visitor

Unknown

In this unforgettable assault on reality--fully restored and presented completely uncut for the first time ever in HD--legendary Hollywood director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure of the Sierra Madre) stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transport the viewer to a state unlike anything they've experienced... somewhere between Hell, the darkest reaches of outer space, and Atlanta, GA. The Visitor fearlessly fuses elements of The Omen, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, The Fury and even Star Wars creating the most ambitious of all '70s psychedelic mindwarps. Its baffling all-star cast includes Shelley Winters (Night of the Hunter), Glenn Ford (Superman), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Franco Nero (Django) and Sam Peckinpah (director of The Wild Bunch).


The Misfits

John Huston

A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.


Three Strangers

Jean Negulesco

Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin. Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three strangers find their destinies entwined with a mysterious, foreign idol, "The Masters of Mystery," Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, play two of the strangers, while Geraldine Fitzgerald proves more than a match for the two screen greats as the third. According to a legend, if three strangers gather before the fables idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford (Fitzgerald) has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor (Greenstreet) and a drunken thief (Lorre) in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real.


The MacKintosh Man

John Huston

A British intelligence officer, posing as a diamond thief, is sent to jail for 20 years to catch a gang that has been arranging escapes from prison for wealthy criminals. Only the agent's immediate superior -- the mysterious Mr. Mackintosh -- knows his identity, and when Mackintosh is killed, the agent's troubles really start. Academy Award-winning screen legend Paul Newman stars.


Fat City

John Huston

Fat City is a powerful and gripping story about personal wins and losses in the raw, rugged world of mateur boxing. Directed by legendary, Oscar®-winning filmmaker John Huston (1948 Best Director and Best Screenplay, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), the film stars the incredible talents of Stacy Keach (American History X, TV’s “The New Mike Hammer”), Jeff Bridges (Jagged Edge, The Mirror Has Two Faces), Candy Clark (At Close Range, American Graffiti) and Susan Tyrrell (Cry-Baby, Powder), in her 1972 Best Supporting Actress Oscar®-nominated performance. Newly remastered.


The Hobbit

Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.

A wonderous animated version of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic about the magical world of Middle Earth and the adventures of lovable Bilbo Baggins. Featuring the voices of Orson Bean and John Huston. Year: 1977 Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. Starring: Orson Bean, John Huston.


The Kremlin Letter

John Huston

Freelance American spy team, each a specialist in his field, is hired to recover a stolen top-secret anti-Red China letter. They infiltrate into Moscow and while doing their job find a traitor in their midst. Based on Noel Behn's novel.


Juarez

William Dieterle

Juarez is the story of three men – Benito Juarez (Paul Muni), Napoleon III (Claude Rains) and Emperor Maximilian (Brian Aherne) – driven by political passions. And of a woman, Empress Carlota (Bette Davis), driven to madness. John Garfield and Gale Sondergaard join the illustrious cast of this epic, directed by William Dieterle (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Life of Emile Zola) and set against a backdrop of revolution and royal ambition, with Mexico as the prize. All the leads earned critical plaudits, but many reviewers singled out Davis for one bravura sequence in which, as the mentally fragile Empress, she confronts Napoleon, demanding he save her husband's life. "Her final flitting away into the darkness of madness is the most unforgettable moment in the picture" (James Shelley Hamilton, National Board of Review).


Wise Blood

John Huston

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 an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer’s vision.


Battle for the Planet of the Apes

J. Lee Thompson

Roddy McDowall returns as Caesar, the intelligent chimp who led an ape revolution against their human masters in the last installment, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Since then, humans nearly rendered themselves extinct in an all-out nuclear war, and the survivors are now beneath the well-preserved ape society. Now a benevolent leader of his people, Caesar supports a peaceful coexistence with humans, much to the dismay of his militant counterpart General Aldo (Claude Akins). When Caesar learns that new evidence regarding his parents’ murder has been found in the Forbidden City, he journeys to the bombarded wasteland with the human MacDonald (Austin Stoker) and the omniscient orangutang Virgil (Paul Williams). While he does find what he is looking for, Caesar also unwittingly awakens a flock of human survivors, who follows his group back home. While the humans prepare for a climactic battle with the apes, General Aldo prepares to challenge Caesar for control, and all hell breaks loose as we witness the BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES.


Reflections in a Golden Eye

John Huston

Screen-legend superstars and Academy Award-winners Elizabeth Taylor ("Cleopatra") and Marlon Brando ("The Godfather") star in John Huston's ("The Maltese Falcon," "The African Queen") intriguing melodrama of repressed love and obsession set in a Southern army base. With Oscar-nominee Robert Forster ("Jackie Brown") and Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Julie Harris ("East of Eden"). Based on Carson McCullers' novel.


Cannery Row (1982)

David S. Ward

Novelist John Steinbeck's classic novel is brought to life with stellar performances. Oscar and Golden Globe-nominee Nick Nolte ("The Prince of Tides," "Affliction") portrays a former baseball player who falls for a Skid Row hooker, played by Oscar-nominee Debra Winger ("Terms of Endearment," "An Officer and a Gentleman"). Narrated by the great director John Huston ("The African Queen ," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") and directed by Oscar-winning writer David S. Ward ("The Sting," "Sleepless in Seattle").


Victory (1981)

John Huston

Box office superstar Sylvester Stallone ("The Specialist," "Cliffhanger," "Rocky" & "Rambo" series) and Academy Award-winner Michael Caine ("Batman Begins," "The Cider House Rules") star in this exciting thriller about POWs who, during an arranged soccer game in Paris, plan a daring escape with the help of the French underground. Co-starring real-life soccer star Pele, and directed by legendary Academy Award-winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre").


The Man Who Would Be King

John Huston

Academy Award-winners Sean Connery ("Rising Sun," "The Hunt for Red October") and Michael Caine ("Hannah and Her Sisters," "Little Voice") star in this robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.


Lovesick (1983)

Marshall Brickman

"Arthur's" Dudley Moore scores another "10" with Oscar-nominee Elizabeth McGovern ("Ordinary People", "She's Having a Baby") in this perfect comedy-romance about a very married psychiatrist who falls head over heels for his newest patient. The New York Times says "Dudley Moore is back doing what he does best." Oscar-winners Alec Guinness ("Star Wars", "The Bridge on the River Kwai") and actor-director John Huston ("Prizzi's Honor", "Chinatown"), Ron Silver ("Timecop", "Reversal of Fortune"), David Strathairn ("The Firm", "The River Wild") and Alan King ("Casino") co-star. Written and directed by frequent Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman ("Annie Hall", "Manhattan").


The African Queen

John Huston

In this classic John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON) film, based on the novel by C. S. Forester (HORATIO HORNBLOWER), a grizzled skipper and a spirited missionary take on the Germans in Africa during World War I. Katherine Hepburn is the uptight Rose Sayer (Hepburn), with no other alternate transportation than a tired river steamboat 'The African Queen' manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie Allnut (Bogart). Together they embark on a long difficult journey. Facing raging rapids, bloodthirsty parasites and impenetrable swamps, the two grow closer to each other despite opposing personalities.


The Black Cauldron

Ted Berman & Richard Rich

Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?


The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

John Huston

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.


Casino Royale (1967)

Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath & Robert Parrish

Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale only after organization head M is murdered. Also mixed up in the affair are several other secret agents, all named James Bond, played by everyone from Peter Sellers and Woody Allen to a chimpanzee. A witty, zany parody of Bond, James Bond that perfectly captures the freewheeling spirit of the late 1960s.


Key Largo

John Huston

Bogart and Bacall ignite the screen in this acclaimed story of a war veteran who finds himself in a deadly fight against gangsters who have taken over a Florida hotel during a tropical storm. All-star cast includes Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca," "The African Queen"), Oscar-nominee Lauren Bacall ("The Big Sleep," "The Mirror Has Two Faces"), Academy Award-honoree Edward G. Robinson ("Little Caesar," "Double Indemnity"), Oscar-winner Lionel Barrymore ("It's A Wonderful Life") and Claire Trevor ("Murder, My Sweet"), who won an Oscar for her powerful performance as gangster Robinson's mistress. Directed by Academy Award-winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") from a script by Oscar-winner Richard Brooks ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Blackboard Jungle").


In This Our Life

John Huston

A neurotic girl, Stanley, (Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bette Davis -- "All About Eve," "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?") dumps her fiancée, steals her sister's husband, rejects him and manipulates her whole family. Stanley's sister soon falls in love with Stanley's former fiancée, Craig, and they plan to wed. Jealous of this, Stanley leads herself to ruin when she tries to place the blame for a hit and run accident on a young black clerk, who works in Craig's law office. Co-starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Olivia de Havilland ("Gone with the Wind," "The Adventures of Robin Hood") and Academy Award-winner Charles Coburn ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "The Lady Eve"). Directed by Academy Award-winner John Huston (The Maltese Falcon," "The African Queen," "Prizzi's Honor").


The Roots of Heaven

John Huston

An idealist tries to save the elephants from extinction from hunters. He enlists the help of a dubious group of followers.


The Bible

John Huston

The greatest stories of the Old Testament are brought to the screen with astounding scope and power in this international film which depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis. This is the spectacular story of man's creation, his fall, his survival and his indomitable faith in the future. From the film's opening amidst cosmic chaos, to its lingering message of hope and salvation, The Bible stands as a monumental motion picture achievement. Legendary director John Huston lends his talents to create a movie of epic proportions.


The Barbarian and the Geisha

John Huston

John Wayne stars in this historical drama of one man's successful struggle to open Japan to the western world. The Barbarian and The Geisha is the true story of Townsend Harris, who in 1856 was appointed by President Pierce to be the first American consul to Japan. Headquartered in Shimoda, Harris discovers that the Japanese thoroughly mistrust the Americans. Slowly, Harris earns the respect of the local power brokers and townsfolk and is permitted to enter the city of Tokyo. A beautiful Geisha, originally sent to thwart Harris' mission, falls in love with him and finally decides to protect him from harm.


The Dead

John Huston

The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan and Julia Morkan. At the home of these two curious ladies, Gretta is prodded into remembering her long-dead lover. She tearfully reveals to her husband that the deceased boy may well have died on her behalf.


The Night of the Iguana

John Huston

Nominated for four Academy Awards, this Oscar-winning adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play stars Oscar-winner Richard Burton ("The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") as an alcoholic de-frocked minister who works as a tour guide in Mexico and becomes involved with a Nantucket spinster, a hotel owner, and a seductive teenager. Oscar-nominee Ava Gardner ("Mogambo") portrays the hotel owner, Oscar-winner Debora Kerr ("From Here to Eternity") is the Nantucket spinster, and Sue Lyon ("Lolita") plays the seductive teen. Produced by Oscar-winner Ray Stark ("The Goodbye Girl," "Funny Face," "Annie") and directed by Academy Award winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre").


Man In the Wilderness

Richard Sarafian

Inspired by the life of Hugh Glass, Academy Award-nominee Richard Harris (“Unforgiven”, ”Camelot”) plays a trapper left for dead after being mangled by a mammoth grizzly bear. Struggling to survive in the wilderness, he keeps himself going by planning revenge on the expedition who left him, especially group leader John Huston (Academy award-winner actor-director of “Chinatown”, “The Treasures of the Sierra Madre”). Similar to Man in the Wilderness, The Revenant (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) is also based on the story of Hugh Glass.


The Wind and the Lion

John Milius

Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Sean Connery ("The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," "Finding Forrester") and Academy Award-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Candice Bergen (TV's "Boston Legal," "The In-Laws") star in this Middle East romantic adventure about a Moroccan chief who triggers an international incident when he kidnaps an American widow and her children. Loosely based on a true event. Co-starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner John Huston ("Chinatown") and Brian Keith ("Young Guns," "Hooper"). Directed by Academy Award-nominee John Milius ("Conan the Barbarian").


Moby Dick

John Huston

John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. Though slightly intimidated by the sermon delivered by Father Mapple (Orson Welles in a brilliant one-take cameo), who warns that those who challenge the sea are in danger of losing their souls, Ishmael nonetheless signs on to the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by the brooding, one-legged Ahab (Gregory Peck). In an obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale to whom he lost his leg, Ahab's dementia spreads throughout the crew members, who maniacally join their captain in his final, fatal attack upon the elusive, enigmatic Moby Dick.


Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

John Huston

Directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. Both nun and sergeant are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. Sergeant Allison does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. Sister Angela is equally fond of sergeant Allison, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.


The Red Badge of Courage

John Huston

Real war hero Audie Murphy ("To Hell and Back") stars as a young Union soldier who fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War. Action-packed drama is based on the Stephen Crane novel and directed by Oscar-winner John Huston ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre").


The Asphalt Jungle

John Huston

Led by an aging professional, a gang of thieves discover betrayal and death following a successful jewel heist. Directed by Academy Award- winner John Huston , this classic crime thriller stars Sterling Hadyn and Oscar-nominees Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen. With beautiful Marilyn Monroe as a mobster's mistress. Considered by many as the greatest crime film ever produced, it was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director and Screenplay. Since its release, it has been remade three times and its realistic storyline copied in dozens of films.


Across the Pacific

John Huston

The director and stars of "Maltese Falcon" Oscar-winner Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, John Huston and nominee Sydney Greenstreet reunite in this adventure classic. Bogart, an American Army Officer, is booted out of service on false charges of treason. As he sails to China, because no other military will accept him, he comes into contact with a series of seedy characters. As a running battle of words continues with Sydney Greenstreet, a spy on the boat, Bogart keeps all eyes focused on the love of his life. With an all-star cast this is an enjoyable, high- spirited action-film.


The Unforgiven

John Huston

With a cast of notable stars, acclaimed director John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand. Huston crafts the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, having a mysterious stranger ride horseback into a small community in the Texas Panhandle and then proceed to cause a mini-war. The time is the mid-19th century and antagonism already exists between the white settlers in the community and the local Kiowa Indian nation. The Zachary family find themselves at the core of this animosity. The matriarch, Matilda (Lillian Gish) holds a family secret — her adopted daughter Rachel (Audrey Hepburn) is actually a Kiowa child. The three brothers in the Zachary family hold differing views on their duties to their family and their hostility towards the Kiowa. While Ben (Burt Lancaster) is obviously in love with Rachel, another, Cash (Audie Murphy) hates Native Americans, and the youngest (Doug McClure) will defend his family when in need. The stranger on horseback does the unthinkable and makes it widely known that Rachel is a Kiowa. The Zachary family secret is at last exposed and the battle begins.


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

Academy Award-winning drama stars screen-legend Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca," "The African Queen"), Walter Huston ("Yankee Doodle Dandy"), and Tim Holt ("The Magnificent Ambersons") as three ill-fated prospectors who set out across the Mexican desert in search of gold but instead find mistrust, betrayal, and death. The legendary John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Maltese Falcon") won an Oscar for his superb direction and screenplay. His father, Walter, received an Oscar for Supporting Actor. Considered by many as Bogart's greatest role, this is a true American classic and was recently selected as one of the fifty best American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute. Look for an appearance by young Emmy-winner Robert Blake (TV's "Baretta," "Money Train"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.


The Maltese Falcon (1941)

John Huston

Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart stars in this classic film noir as tough San Francisco private detective Sam Spade in the classic, convoluted story of Spade's involvement with a deadly band of international thieves who will lie, double cross and murder to obtain a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as The Maltese Falcon. Sam Spade's (Bogart) partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), accepts a job protecting a young woman (Mary Astor). Neither Spade nor Archer believe the woman or the story she tells them, but they do believe her money. Then, when Archer is murdered, Spade's search for the killer drags him in the web of lies and death spun by the desperate people seeking The Maltese Falcon.


Annie

John Huston

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Annie's hit debut on Broadway, we present the classic movie version of the beloved musical, now digitally remastered and featuring the original theatrical trailer. "Annie" is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day, Annie (Aileen Quinn) is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks (Albert Finney). One week turns into many and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage (played to hilarious perfection by Carol Burnett). Will Miss Hannigan's zany attempts to kidnap the irrepressible Annie succeed? Enjoy all theunforgettable songs, including "It's A Hard Knock Life" and "Tomorrow."


Phobia

John Huston

The phobia-ridden patients undergoing a unique therapy treatment with Dr. Peter Ross (Paul Michael Glaser) now face a new terror - murder! One by one they're being killed off, and the finger points to... everyone! Set 'em up. And whittle 'em down. It's a favorite technique in whodunit suspense thrillers. And one of its masters was Oscar winner and Phobia director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The List of Adrian Messenger, Prizzi's Honor.) See if you can identify the killer as the legendary filmmaker propels you into the most terrifying realm of all: your deepest fears.


Chinatown

Roman Polanski

Landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award-winning script by Robert Towne, Chinatown captures a lost era in a masterfully woven movie that remains a timeless gem.