Long before Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro, or Wes Anderson and Bill Murray, John Huston and Humphrey Bogart were one of the great director-actor combos of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Their first collaboration, “The Maltese Falcon,” gave the actor his big breakthrough and one of his defining roles as the cynical private eye, Sam Spade.It made Bogart a star and five more films followed, with the partnership resulting in Bogie’s only Oscar win, playing a booze-soaked riverboat captain in “The African Queen.” In between, it was Huston’s turn; he picked up the only Academy Awards of his long career for Best Director and Best Screenplay for “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” often regarded as the duo’s best film and Huston’s masterpiece.Adapted from the novel by B.
Traven, “Sierre Madre” is a riveting study of greed, following three down-on-their-luck Americans in search of gold in Mexico.
When they strike rich,
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