Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 09/30/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 126 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (
Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his last bit of dough on a lottery ticket. Later on, Dobbs and fellow indigent Curtin (
Tim Holt) seek shelter in a cheap flophouse and meet Howard (
Walter Huston), a toothless, garrulous old coot who regales them with stories about prospecting for gold. Forcibly collecting their pay from their shifty boss, Dobbs and Curtin combine this money with Dobbs's unexpected windfall from a lottery ticket and, together with Howard, buy the tools for a prospecting expedition. Dobbs has pledged that anything they dig up will be split three ways, but Howard, who's heard that song before, doesn't quite swallow this. As the gold is mined and measured, Dobbs grows increasingly paranoid and distrustful, and the men gradually turn against each other on the way toward a bitterly ironic conclusion.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a superior morality play and one of the best movie treatments of the corrosiveness of greed. Huston keeps a typically light and entertaining touch despite the strong theme, for which he won Oscars for both Director and Screenplay, as well as a supporting award for his father Walter, making Walter, John, and
Anjelica Huston the only three generations of one family all to win Oscars.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Nerve-Shattering Adventure.
Tampico, Mexico serves as the setting for John Huston's brilliantly-made screen adaptation of B. Traven's novel of greed, suspicion, paranoia and gold. Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt are two hard-luck drifters, who join Walter Huston in an Oscar-winning performance as a grizzled old prospector on a gold-mining expodition into the mountains, but soon, they will confront a most familiar enemy--greed! John Huston, who also makes an appearance in the movie, won two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay Adaptation. With Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, Manuel Donde, Jose Torvay and Bobby Blake.
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