Random Facts About John Milius

Auteur of such films as Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn. Noted right wing nutcase.

His favourites films are Howard Hawks' Red River, Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers, Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On, John Ford's The Searchers and They Were Expendable, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurais, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, John Huston's The Treasure of Sierra Madre, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

The Battle of Algiers is particularly interesting, although not really all that surprising when you think about it.

Wrote "U.S.S. Indianappolis" scene in Jaws (1975).

One of my favorite scenes in all of film.

Is a personal friend of the Coen brothers and was the inspiration for the character of Walter in the The Big Lebowski (1998).

Well known, but fascinating nonetheless.

Milius has recently become productive for the first time since 1997, writing several episodes of "Rome" and producing a film on the life of Romulus Augustus, last Emperor of the western half of the Empire.