This groundbreaking, long-suppressed look at the effects of war on returning veterans was among the first films to tackle the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder (or as it was then called, “shell shock” or “battle fatigue”). Shot at Mason General Hospital in Brentwood, Long Island, at the end of World War II, LET THERE BE LIGHT follows seventy-five former soldiers suffering debilitating psychological trauma who, in the film’s most dramatic scenes, are given sodium pentothal to recall their horrific experiences in the war. Considered too disturbing and controversial for exhibition, this landmark documentary was suppressed by the military for decades until it finally premiered in New York in 1980.

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Recently released from prison, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) concocts a plan to steal $1 million in jewels. Dix gathers a team of small-time crooks, including a safecracker and a lawyer, and the heist seems to be a success until a stray bullet kills one of the men…

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From The New York Times:
The tone of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award dinner each year is foreshadowed in its opening minutes, when a man or woman whose films ”have stood the test of time” walks past the 1,100 stars, directors, and studio presidents who form his honor court.

Thursday night as he ambled in, the 11th winner of the award, 76-year-old John Huston threw up his arms like a conqueror. ”All of us,” said Orson Welles later in the evening, ”are doomed to play the hero in our own life story” but are haunted by the fear that a understudy will somehow take over. John Huston, he added, could never be overtaken by an understudy.

In a career that is almost overpowering in its richness, John Huston has written 27 movies, directed 38, acted in more than two dozen. He defies anyone to find a pattern in the river of celluloid that flows from his dazzling debut as a director with ”The Maltese Falcon” in 1941 to the $50-million musical ”Annie” in 1982. ”Eclectic,” he described himself in ”An Open Book,” his 1980 autobiography, and challenged even the most observant critic to guess that the same man had made both ”The Red Badge of Courage” and ”Moulin Rouge.”

Lauren Bacall, the evening’s host, remembered ”Moby Dick” and Mr. Huston grabbing ”a bottle of Jack Daniels” and climbing inside his last remaining mechanical whale, a knight determined to save the creature from the sea so he could finish his movie. ”Daring, unpredictable, maddening, mystifying, and probably the most charming man on earth,” was her description.

Among those who rose to pay tribute to Mr. Huston at the film institute’s dinner were Michael Caine; Pele; Jeff Bridges; Frank Capra; Stacy Keach; Robert Blake, who played the child who sold Humphrey Bogart a winning lottery ticket in ”The Treasure of Sierra Madre” in 1948; Robert Mitchum; Ava Gardner; 92-year-old Sam Jaffe; Zsa Zsa Gabor; the producer of ”The African Queen,” Sam Spiegel; Richard Brooks; Jack Nicholson; Aileen Quinn; James Mason, and his actress daughter, Anjelica.

When it came Mr. Huston’s turn to respond, he leaned against the podium like a boxer who can still give a punch or two and spoke of himself as an aging salmon ”disintegrating fin by fin, gill by gill.” When he walked back to his seat, he left his statuette behind. However accidental, it was a properly symbolic action for a man who – unlike many of the first 10 A.F.I. honorees – is still a working professional in one of the only two professions that ever interested him. He would, he said the other day, have preferred to be a painter, his first love, but turned to writing ”as a way of supporting a wife.”

If he is not completely hale, he is hearty. And happy? ”Well, of course,” he said without hesitation. ”I’m alive!”

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Set in 19th Century New England, the story follows the whaling ship Pequod and its crew. Leading them is Captain Ahab, who was almost killed by the “great white whale,” Moby-Dick. Now he is out for revenge. With the crew that has joined him, Ahab is out to destroy the huge mammal, but soon he learns that his obsession with vengeance is so great that he cannot turn back, eventually leading to the death of him and all save his newest able seaman, Ishmael.

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The Unforgiven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Huston. It stars Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford and Lillian Gish. The story is based upon a novel by Alan Le May.The film, uncommonly for its time, spotlights the issue of racism against Native Americans and people believed to have Native American blood in the Old West. The movie is also known for problems behind the scenes. John Huston often said this was his least satisfying movie.

The Zacharys are a thriving and respected family on the Texas frontier. Father Will Zachary was killed by Kiowa Indians, leaving his oldest son Ben (Burt Lancaster) as the head of the family. Both Ben and his mother Mattilda (Lillian Gish) are very protective of the Zachary’s adopted daughter, Rachel (Audrey Hepburn), while her other brothers, Cash (Audie Murphy) and Andy (Doug McClure), treat her as they would any sister. The family is supported by their closest neighbor, Zeb Rawlins (Charles Bickford), whose shy son Charlie (Albert Salmi) wants to marry Rachel. Ben, long aware that she is not actually his sister, loves Rachel and is reluctant…

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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart’s associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented “O’Hara”, whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming involved in Bogart’s machinations are a prim British married couple (Edward Underdown and blonde-wigged Jennifer Jones). As a climax to their many misadventures and double-crosses, the uranium seekers end up facing extermination by an Arab firing squad. The satirical nature of Beat the Devil eluded many moviegoers in 1953, and the film was a failure. The fact that the picture attained cult status in lesser years failed to impress its star Humphrey Bogart, who could only remember that he lost a considerable chunk of his own money when he became involved in the project. Peter Viernick worked on the script on an uncredited basis. Beat the Devil eventually fell into public domain, leading to numerous inferior editions by second and third-tiered labels.

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Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

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