The Maltese Falcon

I voted The Man Who Would Be King, but I'll echo that Wise Blood and The Dead, not on the list, are also really strong.

Love Asphalt Jungle. First time I saw it it seemed like just a standard issue crime/heist movie to me. I came to appreciate it much more upon repeat viewing. Key Largo is also a big favorite that I'm getting a itch to watch again soon. Love the atmosphere in it. Treasure... impressed me the first time I finally saw it, but I'm having a hard time mustering up the enthusiasm to watch it again, even though I upgraded it to Bd years ago. For all its quality, it just seems too obvious. I'm sure I'll change my tune when I finally do sit down to watch it again.

The one film of his that seems to resonate the most with me however is Night Of The Iguana. It caught me off guard the first time I saw it, and played with even more impact the second time around. It reminds me a lot of another favorite film from a few years later, The Swimmer.

The Maltese Falcon.

Guilty pleasure, Moby Dick. A better film then most critics give it credit for.

The Man Who Would be King is great (pity it was never filmed with the original planned cast of Clark Gable and Humffrey Bogart).

The Dead is sublime, a delicate but admittedly very sedate work.

I still think Treasure of the Sierra Madre is his best film and the one that has resonated most down the years.

I picked The Maltese Falcon narrowly over Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston has an impressive resume and even at the end of his career, he was still on the top of his game.

I enjoyed The African Queen, but I do find it to be Huston's most overrated film.

Have to go with this.

(I don't necessarily agree with the Margaret Dumont analogy, but it's very funny.)

You make a very good point, although I would single out PAT AND MIKE and DESK SET, both with Spencer Tracy, as post-1950 performances of hers I would defend. But they're probably the only ones. She certainly delivered several exciting and, dare I say it, charming performances in the 1930s and '40s (ALICE ADAMS and WOMAN OF THE YEAR are two of my favorites) and there isn't anything quite like them in her later filmography. She kind of almost became a caricature of herself.

Which makes me consider the fate of other female stars from the 1930s whose careers continued into the 1950s and beyond. Joan Crawford kind of became a caricature also, but she kept making it an interesting caricature. She was capable of surprising us, as in TORCH SONG and AUTUMN LEAVES and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Barbara Stanwyck starred in a bunch of westerns and really excelled in Sam Fuller's FORTY GUNS, but she didn't have access to the sheer range of roles she'd had in the 1930s and '40s, although she was great in everything she did. Bette Davis played Queen Elizabeth again and did more character parts (A POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES) and always kept it interesting. She's great in HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE.

Even though all parties involved did not like it, I've always felt his best film was The Barbarian And The Geshia

I just rewatched The Man Who Would Be King. Fantastico.