John Huston, Part Two: 1975-1987 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 15)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In part two of our season finale, we explore the final decade of John Huston’s life and career. As he was slowly dying of emphysema and undergoing massive turmoil in his personal life, Huston continued to work almost compulsively on both passion projects (The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood, Under the Volcano) and paycheck gigs (Annie). His career ended, fittingly, with two collaborations with the next generation of Hustons, Prizzi’s Honor and The Dead. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of You Must Remember This is brought to you by the Audible original series, The Big Fix, a Jack Bergen mystery.
0:10.9	You must remember.
0:18.4	A kiss you just a kid
0:20.8	A tribe of death
0:23.6	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This,
0:42.6	the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:51.8	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:55.1	And this is the final episode of our series, The Old Man is Still Alive.
1:05.2	Is Hollywood dead?
1:06.9	No, I don't think so.
1:08.5	Many years ago, when I first started making pictures, being in a film business was a little
1:12.9	bit disreputable.
1:14.2	I hate violence and pictures, just as much as I do, sex and incest.
1:18.4	Old stories I've forgotten mercifully.
1:21.2	I've had such a good time in my life.
1:23.2	It wouldn't bother me a bit if I died at any time.
1:25.5	I think it's up to you, younger fellas, right now.
1:27.7	There's one thing that I hate more than not being taken seriously is to be taken too seriously.
1:33.0	They're being sued by women's lip.
1:34.9	And I'm still alive to tell the tale.
1:40.9	In 1973, in an interview with film comment, John Houston commented,
1:51.5	I seem to have a knack for making films that are either a few years ahead of or behind the times.
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