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What happened after John Huston struck a pedestrian while driving in the early 1930s?
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John Huston
John Huston (left) on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
In the early 1930s, while working in Hollywood, John Huston was involved in a car accident in which he struck and killed a pedestrian. Consumed by guilt following the incident, Huston left the United States for London. Although he initially intended to write for the British studio Gaumont, he instead lived a aimless, ne'er-do-well existence before spending time in Paris painting and eventually returning to the United States.1