1948 Directed by John Huston
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.
Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston Tim Holt Bruce Bennett Barton MacLane Alfonso Bedoya Arturo Soto Rangel Manuel Dondé José Torvay Margarito Luna Robert Blake Guillermo Calles Roberto Cañedo Spencer Chan Jacqueline Dalya Ralph Dunn Ernesto Escoto Pat Flaherty Martín Garralaga Jack Holt John Huston Francisco Islas Mario Mancilla Julian Rivero Ángela Rodríguez Jay Silverheels Ray Spiker Valdespino Ildefonso Vega Show All…
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Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic Metascore: 98
IMDb: 8.2
96/100
Release Date: 24 January 1948
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Budget: $3M
Worldwide Gross: $215K
OSCAR Wins: 3
OSCAR Nominations: 4
Total Film Awards: 13
Howard: "Hey you fellas, how 'bout some beans? You want some beans? Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans."
SYNOPSIS: Two Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
It is beyond me why it took so long to finally view this piece of cinema treasure.
TRIVIA: Walter Huston, father of director John Huston, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. John won for Best Director. This was the…
A masterwork of outstanding direction, terrific screenplay & brilliant performances, a highly fascinating but equally unsettling illustration of poverty, desperation, greed & its corrupting power, and still retaining all its potency despite being nearly 70 years old, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of American cinema's finest works that not only ranks amongst the best films of the 1940s but is one of the greatest movies ever made.
Based on the novel of the same name, the story of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is set in Mexico during the 1920s and follows two down-on-their-luck Americans who meet an old prospector and convince him to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Reluctant at first, the…
83/100
[originally written on my blog]
Still a great movie, but not at all the great movie I'd remembered. My heart sank a little early on when Walter Huston launched into an extended speech about how lust for gold inevitably corrupts the soul of every man, no matter how fundamentally decent; that's precisely what I recalled the movie being about, but hearing it articulated so bluntly was almost painful. Oh me of little faith, though, because the adventure that follows undermines that overstated thesis repeatedly, suggesting instead that Fred C. Dobbs was always a morally cancerous individual especially susceptible to the Dark Side. And yet the film declines to judge him harshly, either—some men are weaker than others, it concludes,…
One small step for man, one giant leap for Hollywood. A landmark turning point in the business, Madre was one of the very first to shoot almost entirely on location, resulting in an unheard of 6 months of shooting. The painstaking details have lived long, gracefully aging this story like the finest wine you've tasted. A classic that time has proven will live forever. Walter Huston's performance only turns your ideas of prospecting wild men completely upside down with spellbinding charm. The roots of Daniel Plainview seed their way back to Huston's face in this.
When I worked at Cinemark it was common for kids under 17 to buy tickets to PG or PG-13 movies and after getting past the ticket booth they’d walk into whatever theater they wanted (we didn’t have assigned seats). This happened a lot when It Chapter One came out.
One day, while It Chapter One was still playing, two young girls (probably like 13 or 14) came to the the ticket booth and presented me with their tickets: two tickets to see the Fathom Events screening of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Of course I knew they were planning on sneaking in to see It Chapter One, but I was a 16 year old wage slave and couldn’t bear…
or: THERE WILL BE GOLD
seeing humphrey bogart on the big screen should be classified as its own unique human emotion
Walter Huston has huuuuge "Sam Neill tweeting about all the lil animals on his farm" vibes in this
The longer Bogart stays on screen the darker his face becomes, the whites of his eyes and the pearls of his teeth the last trace of his dwindling humanity, fighting back the growing mistrust. His journey through the film shows a man who has waited a long time in life for this chance and he intends to make the most of it at any cost.
That sentiment becomes an overbearing presence in his mind, be it the foreman who tries to cheat him out of money, the wild bandits roaming the hills or the creeping paranoia that wedges itself between Hobb's and his co-workers. The more the trio of men scour the land, the more disturbed and insecure he becomes.…
"Ah, as long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last but when the piles of gold begin to grow... that's when the trouble starts."
All about greed, paranoia and the dark side of humanity. Such an influential film, even after seven decades.
