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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

United States

1948

126 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
Spanish, English
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DIR John Huston

EXEC Jack L. Warner

PROD Henry Blanke

SCR John Huston, B. Traven

DP Ted D. McCord

CAST Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, Arturo Soto Rangel, Manuel Dondé, José Torvay, Margarito Luna

ED Owen Marks

MUSIC Max Steiner

Venice: Best Music

Synopsis

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster. –IMDb

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John Huston

The son of actor Walter Huston, American film director John Marcellus Huston was born in Missouri, travelling widely with his family in vaudeville circles, he enjoyed a wild and unconventional youth.

He boxed, rode horses in Mexico and wrote for magazines in New York, before writing dialogue for Hollywood. Before breaking into directing, Huston also spent time acting and street-performing in Paris and London.

His first film, ‘The Maltese Falcon’, was made in 1941, becoming the classic adaptation, and making a star out of Humphrey Bogart. Bogart also appeared in Huston’s next few films: ‘Key Largo’, ‘Across The Pacific’ and ‘The Treasure of The Sierra Madre’.

It was with the latter that Huston won his first Best Director Oscar. His father, Walter, also appeared in the film, winning Best Supporting Actor.

Making military documentaries during World War II, Huston hit the big time again with his 1950 crime film, ‘The Asphalt Jungle’. Following this was ‘The African… read more

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duffers

4Mar12

While it's good, it's not a patch on Traven aka Ret Marut aka Jack London aka Wilhelm's love child aka your grandfather.

MarcH

6Nov11

Less than 5 stars? You've got some 'splainin to do.

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Christofer Pierson

26Sep11

One of the most perfect movies of all time.

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Easton Dubois

1Jul11

No dames and their vaginas. Just men, dirt, gold and greed.

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Greed Wins!

By Beneezy on March 18, 2010

(Wednesday / March 17, 2010 / 11:15pm)

John Huston’s “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre,” is an adventure film in which the pursuit made is not an end in itself but the excuse for a fatalistic…  read review

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By Todd Kushige​machi on December 14, 2009

Director John Huston makes a small cameo at the beginning of his 1948 masterpiece. He plays a gentleman repeatedly asked for money by the penniless Fred C. Dobbs. With his commanding presence, he…  read review

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By asuraf on June 19, 2009

In a career of adapting difficult novels to the big screen, John Huston hardly found a text more apt to his sensibilities than B. Traven’s “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, a scorching 1927 anti…  read review

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By J. Ridicul​ous on June 8, 2009

If The Maltese Falcon was Huston’s film about greed, then this film is about Greed with a capital G. It may the definitive film on the cancerous and corrupting influence of the American dream, namely…  read review

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