Under The Volcano Script

Script by:Guy Gallo (Writer), Malcolm Lowry (Novel)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1984

Plot:Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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Victory Script

Script by:Yabo Yablonsky (Story), Djordje Milicevic (Story), Jeff Maguire (Story), Evan Jones (Screenplay), Yabo Yablonsky (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1981

Plot:A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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Wise Blood Script

Script by:Flannery O'Connor (Novel), Benedict Fitzgerald (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1979

Plot:A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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The Misfits Script

Script by:Arthur Miller (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1961

Plot:While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
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Moby Dick Script

Script by:Herman Melville (Author), Ray Bradbury (Screenplay), John Huston (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1956

Plot:In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Red Badge Of Courage Script

Script by:Stephen Crane (Novel), Albert Band (Adaptation), John Huston (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1951

Plot:Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
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Key Largo Script

Script by:Richard Brooks (Screenplay), John Huston (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1948

Plot:A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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High Sierra Script

Script by:W.R. Burnett (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Novel), John Huston (Screenplay)
Directed by:Raoul Walsh
Year:1941

Plot:Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet Script

Script by:John Huston (Screenplay), Heinz Herald (Screenplay), Norman Burnstine (Screenplay)
Directed by:William Dieterle
Year:1940

Plot:True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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