During John Huston’s ‘Lord Of The Manor’ Ireland years (mid-1950s to mid-1970s roughly) he was known locally as John Huston, MFH. Those letters stood for ‘Master of the Fox Hunt’, a loathsome tradition that he was happy to help perpetrate. Above is a short (five minute) doc showing the great director in action, leading a pack of upscale local Irish Tories on the chase for a harmless fox. Huston’s wonderfully demonic personality is on full display and it’s fun to watch all the cute horsies jumping over all the treacherous stone walls. But I must warn you of a ghastly shot toward the end. It runs from 4:21–4:29 and should put you off of ritualistic animal murder (otherwise known as ‘hunting’) forever, assuming you were ever interested in slaughtering innocent creatures to begin with. Huston’s final summing-up of the day’s murderous activities–“Exultation”! he exclaims–might well be the reason Polanski cast him as Noah Cross in ‘Chinatown’. To quote one of the YouTube commentors, “He should be making films and not doing this shit.”