John Huston ?shot forty pictures in forty-six years, between 1941 and 1986,? Jeffrey Meyers writes, ?and probably made more great films than any other American director.? My only complaint about that sentence is: Why ?probably?? Huston?s first film was an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett?s novel ?The Maltese Falcon,? his last an adaptation of James Joyce?s short story ?The Dead.? Each is a masterpiece, and there are at least five others between them: ?The Treasure of the Sierra Madre? (1948), ?The Asphalt Jungle? (1950), ?The African Queen? (1951), ?Fat City? (1972) and ?The Man Who Would Be King? (1975).
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