At the centre of this book is a portrait of a great film director whose films include "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "The Asphalt Jungle", "The African Queen", "The Misfits", and finally, "The Dead". But although John Huston is the hub of the story, around him are Walter Huston, song-and-dance man in vaudeville, and Angelica, John Huston's daughter, all of whom are Oscar winners. The author describes their hardships, triumphs, their love affairs, their losses, and draws on more than 200 interviews with Huston's wives, children, friends and the people he worked with, as well as an interview with John Huston himself.
- ISBN10 0747505942
- ISBN13 9780747505945
- Publish Date 26 April 1990 (first published 2 November 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 836
- Language English