He gave Marilyn Monroe her breakout role in a movie about four small-time crooks who plot to steal some jewels.
This director's searing documentary about shell-shocked World War II veterans in a Long Island hospital was suppressed by the Army until the 1980s. He was wheelchair bound when he directed his daughter in his final film, a 1987 adaptation of James Joyce's story "The Dead." He gave Marilyn Monroe her breakout role in a movie about four small-time crooks who plot to steal some jewels. This director of Asphalt Jungle is better known for a film in which the alcoholic Charlie Allnut and a missionary played by Katherine Hepburn attack a German ship during World War I. In another of his films, a statuette of a bird found by Sam Spade turns out to be fake. For 10 points, name this American who directed Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, and The Maltese Falcon.
This director's searing documentary about shell-shocked World War II veterans in a Long Island hospital was suppressed by the Army until the 1980s.
John Huston