John Huston Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1983
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- In this speech from 1983, director, actor and writer John Huston accepts the 11th AFI Life Achievement Award. Some Huston's best known films include CHINATOWN, THE MALTESE FALCON and THE AFRICAN QUEEN.
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There are not many around , these days who could deliver a speech so elequently, the whole room was silent, listening to every word of John Huston. He was 77 years old there, in 1983, gettin a lifetime achievement award, rightfully so.
8:38 his beautiful daughter Anjelica. future Morticia Addams
Anjelica Huston is my crush
His voice... It's magical
Huston is the Hemingway of directors..
totally! he was good friend with him!
@@glassjaw2007 Huston,Hemingway and Welles were best friends
Daniel Plainview right there.
Spot on!
@@emmalynpanajon615 he doesn't like to talk about those thinggggs
Huston was the ultimate ground breaking film maker. He created the "film noir" genre with The Maltese Falcon in 1941. He was the 1st to film the majority of a top feature film on location when he made his incomparble masterwork of art, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre in 1948 and in 1950 he made the 1st film that told the story of a major crime from the perspective of the criminals with the fully evolved film noir The Asphalt Jungle. Huston was unmatched at producing great scenes and story telling. He and Bogart, of course, comprised the greatest director-actor combo in film history because they were each the best at what they did. They each in their careers made the most top level films, Huston of any director and Bogart, mostly because of his unparalleled screen presence, of any lead actor.
A graceful and intelligent speech. Something that is sadly lost in today's Hollywood.
John Huston...LEGEND.....remembered by all in County Galway, Ireland.....R.I.P.....i live by a mantra, and i think John Huston would agree....'Here for a great time....not a long time'
Certainly, Humphrey Bogart did his best and most memorable film work under Huston's direction: The Maltese Falcon, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The African Queen. As Huston said in his eulogy at Bogart's funeral, "He is quite irreplaceable".
Your comment is also Irreplaceable and deserves Thanks
Same could be said of John Huston.
I rewatched Maltese Falcon the other night, and was (once again) utterly struck at what a magnificently staged and shot film it is. Every scene is framed perfectly, and the actors make the absolute most of it. There's no shortage of "great films" in this world, but no matter what is on the list, Falcon better damn-well be near the top of the heap.
I am proud to say I was at this event - March, 1983 at the Beverly Hills Hilton. I almost got run over in the lobby by a late running Jack Lemmon!
Looks to me that people nowadays usually forget or dont even know who John Huston was. When i hear people arguing about the best directors, i always hear the same names, but he is never among them.
Thats the guy who was nominated to FIFTEEN Academy Awards. He had an infinite talent, a great actor/writer/director.
I'm simply a carpenter who worked in LA for 35 years!! I met Marlon Brando who's meeting is always a story for me!! I missed Orson Wells; which I regret........ but John Houston would be my other regret!
Along with his friend Billy Wilder, one of the great writer/directors because they understand that it all begins with the writing and the dialogue, and that the images and the performances you capture as director accompany and compliment the script.
THE POWERS THAT BE SENT DASHIELL HAMMET TO FREEZE TO DEATH ON DUTY IN ALASKA DURING THE WAR BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE HIS SOCIAL OR POLITICAL ANTI- FACSIST OUTLOOK!!!!HE WROTE THE MALTESE FALCON AND THE GLASS KEY DETECTIVE!HE WAS PARTICULARLY AGAINST CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES THE THE LENGTHS THAT EVIL PEOPLE GO TO TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS!A WRITER OF CONSCIENCE THAT FLOWERED BRIEFLY RIGHT BEFORE US!
Absolutely brilliant speech and remembrances. he was a legend among those who admired great acting and Direction. right up there with Orson Welles and the greatest of the great.
I love his voice so much, its fun to imitate and its music to listen too.
He was great director and pretty darn good actor, I still say his performance in Chinatown is one of the greatest villian roles in the history of cinema.
Proper. Menacing.
when he says " the Indians had come down from the mountains" it gives me the chills. he. is.Gandalf. thats whose voice sir ian was attempting in LOTR
I remember reading The Hobbit to my girls and trying in vain to do Huston’s voice for Gandalf.
He's the O.G.! (Original Gandalf)
I still imagine John Huston's voice as Gandalf when I read the Lord of the Rings books.
Everything was John Huston's voice and nothing hurt.
What a life, what a man, BRAVO sir well done! One of My favorite directors definitely my favorite character he was a Brilliant actor, voice and artist they don't make them like that anymore!
RIP GENIUS
A true legend of cinema.
That moment when you realize that Gandalf's daughter is the Grand High Witch...
Really? That's actually quite amazing. Thank you for sharing
one true storyteller from every inch of his heart & soul - knowing what he had to sacrifice in order to live up to it.
OMG... look at those shots in the crowd great themselves in awe. Huston is one of my heroes.
I wish he did more acting. He was as stunning in front of the camera as he was in back of the camera.
Love the connection between Huston & Mitchum in this clip. Shame they did not make 10 pictures together...
Gandalf! I love his voice.
Huston's rhythm of speech and tone reminds me of Gen.Douglas MacArthur.
"I drink your milkshake!"
Thomas D that's why I'm here too lol. just read the imdb trivia page
It just now hit me that DDL in TWBB sounds a lot like Huston.
Agree. Impressive association... brilliant catch. (Like the initial mystery included, too.)
The way he says "Murchison Falls" at 5:11!
Murchison Faaaalls! aaaacrooss the room
What impresses me most about this is how cheerfully he makes jokes about his failing health at the start of his speech. Hollywood worships youth and health, they did in 1983 and now they do even more so.
This was beautiful. Mitchum's reactions are priceless
5:02. Pele there. They all came out for Mr Huston. What a character. What a director.
Thanks for the vid. I just wish the entire show was available. As I recall, it had some classic moments.
One of my favorite filmmakers!
I could listen to this man talk all day.
Oh i just love john
Wonderful speech, beautifully delivered...
JUST PURE CLASS! 🤩
I did meet him before the award in 1983! What a man! Great honor!
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"Gandalf" from the animated version of The Hobbit :)
This one of my favorite men & artists. he was a giant in his day.
I could listen to his voice all day.
What a speech!!
btw, just in case nobody quite noticed: this was an absolutely BRILLIANT and heartfelt speech. ... one of the best I have EVER heard or witnessed.
no pressure to get to commercial, no multitasking with iphones. just the wonderful JH
I could listen to John Huston's voice for ages
John Huston was a great director, writer, actor and gentleman.
He was a great director
I could listen to John for hours on end.
Just so wonderful.
Have you ever seen an audience more mesmerized? You could have heard a pin drop. Scarcely even a cough. Brilliant!
Loved his dad's work as well....
I could watch Huston read the phone book a legend
marvelous speech
And still going strong at that time.
How many people couldn’t click off and ended up watching the whole thing? What a great talent.
I remember this. One of best self eulogies ever.
Wonderful speech !!!
his voice is so mesmerizing
Wow, his first film is the Maltese Falcon -- classic.
Auspicious beginings, or what?
Watching this after the Will Smith fiasco. How America has fallen.
RIP Mr. John Huston and thank you.
Beautiful!!
They broke the mould when they made him. An absolute legend of a man.
What a complete legend.
magnificent. bigger than life as usual
what a poet
Clint Eastwood did a good job playing Huston in White Hunter, Black Heart...
Very well said Mr Huston
What an incredible director.
He looks like Ernest Hemingway :) "The Old Man And The Sea"
Class act !
a GIANT of man
Simply "the man"
This was a genial speech, recollections of a great past, rich in experiences and drama,....what a great life👏👏👏😊😊😊😊😊
What a poet great man gentile humor
his voice...
Class personified.
There is something quite entertaining to me about Hollywood royalty . . .
Don't bully me Daniel!!!
I think I found where Daniel Day Lewis drew some inspiration for the diction and cadence of Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
What a guy....
@Howler54
He voiced Gandalf in the animated Rankin Bass tv production of the Hobbit. I got the 2 LP box set for christmas in the late 70's.
4:03 - Mitchum is high as fuck, this is like the hall of OGs.
Poetry - and great poetry at that.
Just beautifully meaningful - don't ask why.
He was essentially still a young man in an old man’s body….in his energetic speaking voice. And that voice…note how the whole room goes silent when he starts speaking and then continues to be silent.
@Howler54 yep, that's what I known him best for.
Many great directors produce their worst films during the last 10 to 15 of their careers. John Huston is the rare exception.
Ray Bradbury and he co-wrote MOBY DICK, but John graciously gives Ray the sole credit.
I love the story about everyone getting sick during The African Queen except for Bogart and Huston because the only water they drank was with their whiskey.
This IS Gandalf's voice.
he is on a god like level god watch wathced prizzi honer again so brilliant
Gandalf means me!
2:35 Isn't that Michael Cane? And who's the gal to right? ;)
he had a real fight, with Errol Flynn, I don't know who won.
They respected each other more. after that bloody encounter , i hear...Olivia DeHavilland's honor was the source of the fight apparently. Startling to think that she's still around!!
Lol according to what I read they both lost!
@@philiphalpenny9761 Olivia adored Flynn...he was a bad boy slimeball which figures.
It is a great misfortune that an Ernest Hemingway biopic was never made with him as the star, or at least for the latter part of the man's life.
He could've played him in a film set, at least, during the time Hemingway was writing The Old Man and The Sea. Such a pity.
Huston ! Huston ! Do you Read?
An inmortal Master.
TITAN
What does long cake mean? Can someone explain. 5:50
He didn't say "long cake", he said "long pig" (the CC got it wrong). "Long pig" means a human; they were eating human meat.
Far Eastwood! Gandalf recounting the time they ate African villagers..."Long Pig" My old girlfriend had a Polonesian friend who was taken to the islands to meet her gr grandma. As a girl they still ate human so she told her gr grandchild what the best part was...the thumbsticks...no lie!
I drink your milkshake Eli......I drink it UP!
daniel plainview!!
What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house?
He should have said “I am John Huston … and John Huston means ME!!!”