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Walter Huston: Roles
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Walter Huston stars in this classic western loosely based on the Tombstone saga. Huston is the Earp character, Harry Carey is the Holliday character, as they smash the "Northup" family of crooks. Andy Devine has a notable small role. Excellent quality.
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Playing non-Americans Huston was cast in equally conservative roles. He was suitably imperial as Cecil Rhodes in Rhodes of Africa. He was kind yet commanding as the doctor/commune head of a Soviet village in that curiously middle-American study of rural Russian life under German attack, The North Star.
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Dark, bizarre melodrama with a powerful performance by Huston as the maddened ruler of a remote African outpost seeking revenge on his enemy by kidnapping his daughter (Bruce). Huston lifts it completely out of ordinary with the depth of his performance. A remake of the "silent" WEST OF ZANZIBAR with Lon Chaney in the Huston role.
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Ben Solowey drew Huston in one of his lesser film roles, The Bad Man in 1930 (the same year he played the title role in D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln). In 1934 Ben captured Huston in his greatest triumph in both stage and screen adaptations of Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth playing the retired industrialist who sheds his nagging, unfaithful wife for true love with an American expatriate in Europe. Huston received a 1936 Oscar nomination for his work in that film,
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