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John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro

Director John Huston, fresh from the success of his first feature The Maltese Falcon (1941), enlisted for active duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War II. He directed this controversially realistic documentary while … more »

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John Huston’s Controversial WWII Doc Finally Sees the Light—Online

Yesterday, the National Film Preservation Foundation began streaming a rare and controversial documentary director John Huston made when he was a major in the Army's Signal Corps during World War II. Let There Be Light (1946), eventually preserved by the … more »