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John Huston's "Freud," with Montgomery Clift in the title role, was underrated by the critics and under-respected by the college freshmen with whom I saw it in the mid-1960s. During the scene where Monty gives Susannah York a sexy new negligee, one wise guy shouted out, "Hey, it's a Freudian slip!" Then and now, it's hard to resist irreverence when ... (more)

In 1962, director John Huston made "Freud," starring Montgomery Clift as the father of psychoanalysis.

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John Huston, the late director of "The Maltese Falcon," "The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "Prizzi's Honor" and "The Dead," hasn't inspired a lot of scholarship over the years.

I'm not exactly a cultist for David Cronenberg - I didn't think A History of Violence was very convincing, or even that The Fly was a great horror film - but I was primed, in Toronto, to seeA A A A Dangerous Method , in which Viggo Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender plays Carl Jung.