United States
1984
112 minutes
Color
1.78:1
English
410
Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in an Oscar-nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism, Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset) but only further alienating himself. John Huston’s ambitious tackling of Malcolm Lowry’s towering “unadaptable” novel gave the incomparable Finney one of his grandest roles and was the legendary The Treasure of the Sierra Madre director’s triumphant return to filmmaking in Mexico.
| Geoffrey Firmin | Albert Finney |
| Yvonne Firmin | Jacqueline Bisset |
| Hugh Firmin | Anthony Andrews |
| Dr. Vigil | Ignacio Lopez Tarzo |
| Senora Gregoria | Katy Jurado |
| Brit | James Villiers |
| Quincey | Dawson Bray |
| Bustamante | Carlos Riquelme |
| Dwarf | Rene Ruiz (Tun Tun) |
| Director | John Huston |
| Producer | Moritz Borman and Wieland-Schulz Keil |
| Screenplay | Guy Gallo |
| Executive producer | Michael Fitzgerald |
| Music | Alex North |
| Editing | Roberto Silvi |
| Production Design | Gunther Gerzso |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Production supervisor | Tom Shaw |
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
Novelists learn not to expect too much when their books are made into movies. Obviously, great fiction has been turned into great cinema, but the dents and . . .
Under the Volcano, made in 1984, is the thirty-fourth of thirty-six feature films in a body of work that began in 1941 with The Maltese Falcon. Already ill but brimming with vitality, John Huston was then seventy-eight years old. He had always alternated personal projects, often . . .
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