Screenplay: John Huston

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Huston. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Asphalt Jungle

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...

8.1

12K votes

8.1

12K votes

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Huston · Tim Holt · Bruce Bennett

Plot Two down-and-out friends, Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt) find themselves working a dead-end job in Tampico, Mexico. Wishing they could turn their luck around, the two meet...

8.1

15K votes

8.1

15K votes

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre

Plot Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His...

8.0

32K votes

8.0

32K votes

The African Queen

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Plot Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

The Man Who Would Be King

1975 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey

Plot The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan...

7.9

28K votes

7.9

28K votes

Key Largo

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in...

7.9

19K votes

7.9

19K votes

The Killers

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Plot Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss,...

7.9

8K votes

7.9

8K votes

Jezebel

1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

High Sierra

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Plot Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Plot When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Stranger

1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale

Plot Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is...

7.4

8K votes

7.4

8K votes

Sergeant York

1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Plot True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Moby Dick

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice

Plot The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

7.3

9K votes

7.3

9K votes

Moulin Rouge

1952 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier

Plot Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Plot Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the...

7.1

115 votes

7.1

115 votes

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum

Plot For different reasons, Irish Catholic nun Sister Angela and U.S. Marine Corporal Allison are stranded on deserted Tuasiva Island in the South Pacific in 1944, the island deserted due to...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Let There Be Light

1946 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Plot The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and...

6.8

237 votes

6.8

237 votes

A Walk with Love and Death

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Assi Dayan · Anthony Higgins · John Hallam

Plot In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.

6.7

852 votes

6.7

852 votes

The Red Badge of Courage

1951 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Audie Murphy · Bill Mauldin · Andy Devine · Robert Easton

Plot Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody...

6.7

521 votes

6.7

521 votes

A House Divided

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Walter Huston · Douglass Montgomery · Helen Chandler · Mary Foy

Plot In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son.

6.6

29 votes

6.6

29 votes