John Huston Has Only Watched Two of His Films

John Huston Has Only Watched Two of His Films | The Dick Cavett Show

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John Huston reveals that he's only ever seen two of his films.
Date aired - February 21st, 1972 - John Huston
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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@mootpointjones8488 Жыл бұрын

I could listen to Mr. Huston for hours on end.

@mozart579 Жыл бұрын

100%

@anthonyparadiso1a 10 ай бұрын

Yes, loved him in the 77 hobbit as gandalf.

@sailorlac 7 ай бұрын

Yes, he was quite the man!

@ianbauer4703 Жыл бұрын

Love to see the full interview with this larger than life legend, John Huston.

@mortalclown3812 10 ай бұрын

It's all here, but in segments.

@jflash3451 Жыл бұрын

Love the way he speaks and his phrasing

@citizen1163 Жыл бұрын

What a giant of a man, in every respect! 🙌🙌🙌

@bovnycccoperalover3579 Жыл бұрын

Great man as was his father.

@krissmgvlogs Жыл бұрын

that product placement at the start was hilarious. can you imagine talk show hosts doing that today 😂

@thetruthexperiment Жыл бұрын

It would be better if they did.

@QuadMochaMatti Жыл бұрын

I'd prefer anything like that rather than the insipid and highly offensive "free home solar panels and Tesla powerwall that the United States government will pay for, at no expense to you" spamvertisements that KZfaq/Google insist on throwing in my face every 5 minutes or less...

@Vanderearden Жыл бұрын

They do it everyday? All the morning and afternoon shows are selling products.

@freddylubin Жыл бұрын

Today it's more subtle.

@that_one_dude497 Жыл бұрын

its funny you say that....Almost EVERY podcast nowadays does this! its true what they say...History repeats itself!!

@519djw6 Жыл бұрын

*I really liked the few scenes that he gave himself as a "bit-actor" in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."*

@Ckom-Tunes Жыл бұрын

When a man could smoke a cigar on stage-priceless!

@anjalisharma461 2 күн бұрын

John Huston and Orson Welles, two men I could listen to for hours.

@joshramirez7 Жыл бұрын

If I had a penny for everytime I've heard an actor say they dont watch their movies...might have a dollar.

@BomChickyBowWow Жыл бұрын

I know it’s weird isn’t it. They’re always asked if they watch their own movies, they always say no, and everyone is always slightly surprised.

@joshramirez7 Жыл бұрын

@@BomChickyBowWow I would assume they would be curious how it turned out, filming a movie vs the final product are two very different experiences

@fifthbusiness1678 Жыл бұрын

He’s a director first, acted in just a few films (and Myra Breckinridge really was an awful film, so I understand why he wouldn’t watch that one).

@oliverholmes-gunning5372 Жыл бұрын

2:30- it's been done many times; Hitchcock of course famously remade The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cecil B DeMille remade The Ten Commandments, Michael Mann remade Heat (or rather, Heat itself was a remake of his earlier movie LA Takedown), and Michael Haneke and Takashi Shimizu were both behind the American remakes of two of their most famous horror movies- Funny Games and The Grudge, respectively.

@lynnturman8157 Жыл бұрын

And also Hitchcock remade The Man Who Knew Too Much, John Ford remade Red Dust, both with Gable (called Mogambo for the remake), and Frank Capra remade Lady for a Day (called Pocketful of Miracles for the remake)

@franknemeth7430 Жыл бұрын

Yesterday was so much better than today - you hear a name today and I say who and these stars today are praised for doing nothing .

@lynnturman8157 Жыл бұрын

This interview makes me wanna throw away my phone.

@cicolasnage5684 3 ай бұрын

Then how would you watch the interview. Dummy.

@erictrenbeath9680 Жыл бұрын

Love the cigar on set!

@ShadowWinger99 Ай бұрын

This is almost like a "Chris Farley Show" skit with Cavett asking if Huston would remake his classic films and listing them off.

@kevindoyle3614 Жыл бұрын

I liked him in Chinatown

@freddylubin Жыл бұрын

And to think how many great films he still had yet to do!

@prairiewitch8217 10 ай бұрын

Such a voice

@larsivar8772 Жыл бұрын

This interview was done before what was (arguably) his best acting performance in Polanskis Chinatown.

@georgecollord7650 Жыл бұрын

My all time favorite film. Unmatched.

@larsivar8772 Жыл бұрын

@@georgecollord7650 It's great, Nicholsons best film, in my top 3 at least. And if i was to make a top 10 list there would be a couple of John Huston directed movies on it as well, maybe The Man Who Would Be King and The Maltese Falcon. (Key Largo is another good one and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.)

@willminkorea2010 Жыл бұрын

Great interview

@lottahansson8556 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this story 💖🙏.

@danny-li6io 3 ай бұрын

The Man Who Would Be King, and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean are 2 of my favorite films he directed.

@spactick Жыл бұрын

If he had only directed 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Treasure of The Sierra Madre' he'd be on that short list of the all time great directors

@Mr.Goodkat Жыл бұрын

He is seen by many as being on the list of all time great directors but I think had he only made those two films he wouldn't be so much because everyone would say his filmography was too small, people seem to love The African Queen, Key Largo, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Asphalt Jungle, Annie, The Misfits, Prizzi's Honor and The Man Who Would Be King among other's so he is known for other stuff too.

@spactick Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Goodkat What you said is true although if you look at Orson Welles directorial output it's even smaller than Mr Huston's and yet the the influence and presence that Welles has on the minds of directors and critics of film is infinitely larger. Would you not agree? just saying

@Mr.Goodkat Жыл бұрын

@@spactick Likely because of Citizen Kane, I'd attribute most of it to that.

@Viewer-ld5rc 5 ай бұрын

@@Mr.GoodkatHis later work is also phenomenal.

@jasonbruder9110 Жыл бұрын

Two great minds - thank you for posting! Huston's autobiography is well worth reading.

@bikefixer Жыл бұрын

You mean Lawrence Groebel's "The Hustons"? Love that book.

@twomindz79 Жыл бұрын

@@bikefixer "An open Book" is his autobiography.

@jasonbruder9110 Жыл бұрын

@@bikefixer I'll check it out - the man was a genius.

@terilerwick284 Жыл бұрын

Hope he got to see himself in Chinatown two years later.

@mikecleary8307 Жыл бұрын

Please upload the next section where he talks about Ireland. Thank you

@HailCaesar-lm4bq Жыл бұрын

No replacements for Huston and his great actors .

@nkt1 Жыл бұрын

Accord to Wikipedia, the original print was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. In 1975, the studio decided to release the uncut film and asked Huston if he had a copy. He did, at one time, but it had since been lost.

@mikehiggins946 Жыл бұрын

I don't know what it is about Dick Cavet that bugs me but he seems awkward during his interviews. I really get the feeling that he is interrogating his guest rather than having a conversation with him or her like the good ones do. It sounds to me like he's reading questions from a prepared list.

@Anthony-hu3rj Жыл бұрын

Damn, I'd love to see the original "director's cut" of Red Badge of Courage! Anybody know anything more about it? Seems it's lost to the dustbin of Hollywood.

@franknberry6397 Жыл бұрын

MGM lost it or it was destroyed in a fire. Huston seems not to know the background of why the test audiences left the theater during the film. Apparently there was a power struggle happening at MGM Studios between Dore Schary, who supported the film and Louis B Mayer who didn't. Supposedly Mayer informed the audience in some way that they were about to see a comedy. So when the film played and was a grim story many left. The actor Royal Dano was supposedly fantastic in the scene and probably would've gotten an Oscar nomination.

@iago4810 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, if you could release the whole conversation at once, that'd be great.

@hennyvanveldhuizen5976 Жыл бұрын

He made a lot of films on location because he could go hunting or fishing….. still some of them are great

@mrfroopy Жыл бұрын

HUSTON must have seen himself act in Sierra Madre as he directed it.

@josebasterrica3358 Жыл бұрын

Un genio anda suelto

@josebasterrica3358 Жыл бұрын

Qué voz tan hermosa me recuerda a Gregory Peck que trabajo con el en Mony Dick una de sus grandes películas casi a la altura del libro

@josebasterrica3358 Жыл бұрын

@@nobodyexpectssi4654 preciosa anécdota muchas gracias

@AmericasChoice 3 ай бұрын

Huston learned early on, probably on advice from his father, to only shoot just enough film so that editors would not have anything to work with to change the tenor of the film. He also shot in cronological sequence whenever possible to help the actors. I think the problem with Red Badge of Courage is that he shot WAY too much film, which allowed the studio/editor to chop it up. Too bad, I have heard that the director's cut was a masterpiece. The same thing happened to Welles, The Magnificent Amberson's, another lost director's cut masterpiece...

@rowley555 5 ай бұрын

I agree, Robert Mitchum was a great actor.

@AmericasChoice 3 ай бұрын

And a highly intelligent man with a legitimate photographic memory.

@rowley555 3 ай бұрын

@@AmericasChoice and great with accents too....

@AmericasChoice 3 ай бұрын

@@rowley555 Yup. apparently, when filming a western that had Native Americans as extras, he was able to perfectly match their accents in their native tongue after hearing them speak one time.

@TEGRULZ 9 ай бұрын

I would like to think he enjoyed The Hobbit, because his talent, so considerable at anything movie related his put his hands on, to agree to do The Hobbit, and it be a musical, I think he must have had an affection for Tolkien.

@Slamchunk Жыл бұрын

He acted in many of his films that he directed, so how could he not have seen them?

@lindas.martin2806 Жыл бұрын

You can act in a film, but not see the results on the actual film running on a projector, or during editing.

@lawsonj39 Жыл бұрын

I got the impression they were just talking about the films he acted in that were directed by other people.

@bsdgffishtuna5186 Жыл бұрын

gods voice.

@charold3 Жыл бұрын

Hemingway did come back. I think Carver gave him a boost-no Hemingway, no Carver.

@Dessme Жыл бұрын

I thought he was Anthony Quinn. But I am curious to watch the "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" after watching a clip. I think he was a great actor and director.

@anthonyparadiso1a 10 ай бұрын

I recommend watching it

@wallaceb9120 Жыл бұрын

Brando..ugh!

@billthestinker Жыл бұрын

Huston suffered from extreme flatulence 💨and would smoke cigars to mask the stench to no avail 💨💨

@lescook9021 Жыл бұрын

Dick Cavett has always had one major drawback in his interviews, his ego and insecurities insist that he always at every possible opportunity, try and show everyone how clever, witty and smart he is.

@plasticweapon Жыл бұрын

*isn't*

@landlubber541 Жыл бұрын

I don't get that impression from Cavett at all honestly.

@plasticweapon Ай бұрын

@@landlubber541 that's pretty dense.