John Huston – Stream On Demand

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in the film adapted from the Dashiell Hammett novel by John Huston.

Leaving soon: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ – the stuff dreams are made of on Max

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Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade in John Huston’s note-perfect adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic novel in this pioneering film noir classic.

Leaving soon: The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel

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Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner becames stars in Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir classic, a caper twisted by betrayal, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in John Huston's adaptation

Leaving soon: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ on HBO Max

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Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Huston’s magnificent adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story, a larger than life tale on a glorious canvas.

John Huston directs ‘Moby Dick’ on Paramount+ and MGM+

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Gregory Peck is the Captain Ahab, the captain of a whaling ship obsessed with hunting down the great white whale, in this superb adaptation of the classic Herman Melville novel scripted by Ray Bradbury.

Last chance: John Huston’s ‘The Dead’ on Criterion Channel

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John Huston’s final film is one of his most exquisite works, a perfect cinematic short story and a beautiful adaptation of James Joyce.

‘Winter Kills’ – The great American conspiracy movie free on Kanopy and Hoopla

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Jeff Bridges and John Huston star in William Richert’s cult movie, the maddest and most entertaining of Kennedy conspiracy thrillers.

Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe star in the film noir from John Huston

‘The Asphalt Jungle’ – the original heist classic on Criterion Channel

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John Huston essentially created the heist film with this classic tale of a crew that undertakes a meticulously planned out jewelry robbery.

Last chance: Humphrey Bogart hits the ‘High Sierra’ on Criterion Channel

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Raoul Walsh helped the veteran Warner Bros. actor become a leading man in this tough. smart crime drama, costarring Ida Lupino as a hardened survivor who falls for the veteran crook.

Franco Nero, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Sam Peckinpah, Lance Henriksen, and Glenn Ford star in this flamboyantly incoherent 'Exorcist' knock-off from Italy directed by Giulio Paradisi

‘The Visitor’ – crazy Italian cult horror on MUBI, Shudder, and free on Kanopy

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This wildly inchoherent Italian knock-off of ‘The Exorcist’ is a cult horror that plays as a satanic thriller by way of a cosmic battle.

‘Key Largo’ with Bogie and Bacall on HBO Max

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Film noir hits the tropics in John Huston’s 1948 thriller set in the midst of a Florida Hurricane. Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor costar.