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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Neo-Western film written and directed by John Huston, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and Walter Huston - the director's father.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre describes three down-on-their-luck adventurers as they seek their fortunes mining for gold in the mountains of Mexico. It not only details the physical...
At the beginning of the film, two of them are scammed out of their hard earned money by a rich business magnate. Yet by the end of the film only one of them lets avarice get the better of him. Just because someone is raised in a ruthless world, does not mean that they must lose their humanity. The role of the individual can not be overlooked.
Aug 10, 2012 · The first remarkable thing about the movie is a speech given by Howard in his first scene: Howard: Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? Flophouse Bum: I don’t know. Because it’s scarce. Howard: A thousand men, say, go searchin’ for gold. After six months, one of them’s lucky: one out of a thousand.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (‹See Tfd› German: Der Schatz der Sierra Madre) is a 1927 adventure novel by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown. [1] In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join an older American prospector in a search for gold .
- B. Traven
- 1927
Feb 18, 2022 · John Huston's grim fable Treasure of the Sierra Madre ends with a bitter lesson about the true value of gold.
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Oct 12, 2003 · “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) is a story in the Joseph Conrad tradition, using adventure not as an end in itself but as a test of its characters. It involves moral disagreements between a wise old man and a paranoid middle-aged man, with a young man forced to choose sides.
