Joyce wrote with a feel for the cinematic, and Huston regarded his films of literary works- The Maltese Falcon, The Red Badge of Courage, Moby Dick, and Wise Blood-as companions to the original texts. Their sensibilities, though, were simpatico. (The interiors were done in a warehouse in Valencia, Calif.) The circumstances under which the youthful Irish writer and the aging American filmmaker worked couldn’t have been more dissimilar. The Dead would be his last film.Ī self-imposed and impoverished exile, Joyce wrote The Dead and the rest of the stories in Dubliners in a dingy apartment in Trieste, Italy Huston was an émigré to Joyce’s native Ireland, where, directing from a wheelchair, he shot some of the film’s exteriors. Huston’s most famous works- The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Asphalt Jungle-were in the distant past. John Huston was 80 years old when he made the greatest of all Christmas movies, released in 1987. His major works- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake-were still ahead of him. James Joyce was 25 years old when he wrote the greatest of all Christmas stories, The Dead, in 1907.
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