Obviously attracted to the flamboyant character that John Huston supposedly was, Eastwood gives it a shot imitating Huston's famous drawl and dressing in riding outfits. John Huston had an estate in Ireland for many years and loved to fox hunt.
Frankly a film about a Hollywood director who would rather hunt elephants than film The African Queen was going to have an extremely limited appeal to the general public. White Hunter Black Heart was a big flop.
To film a character study like this you have to be a good actor. Clint Eastwood is a performer who like John Wayne was good at playing one type of character, himself. John Huston was probably a more complicated personality than the character Eastwood was trying to interpret in this film.
Probably a film of extremely limited interest to film buffs only.
110 minutes, screenplay by Peter Viertel, James Bridges and Burt Kennedy.\
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