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John Huston won the Academy Award(R) for writing and directing this powerful saga that pits gold and greed in the wilds of Mexico and stars his father (Walter Huston) and Humphrey Bogart. Year: 1948 Director: John Huston Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) Cusomter reviews:
Average Rating: 5.0 Total Reviews: 131
(Jeanne Link, 2009-09-16) A very good me, of course Humphrey Bogart was one of the best actors. Jeanne
(Lynn Ellingwood, 2009-07-11) I have to agree with the first reviewer, this film, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, along with Greed are the best films about Greed ever made. This one has beautiful deep focus photography, great writing, direction and acting. (Greed does too.) The more I see this film, the more I find in the film. No shot is left to chance and everything drives the story forward. Humphrey Bogart plays a shifty character from the US traveling to Mexico to search for gold in the Sierra Madre mountain range. He has no money and begs other Americans for money. Finally he is given a job and uses the money to go into the gold digging business with other Americans played by Tim Holt and Walter Huston. What happens then is tragic. The men all want gold but Humphrey Bogart's character is willing to stop at nothing to get it while the others seem to have some scruples.... or do they? Wonderful, hard bitten film.
(K. Draper, 2009-06-07) I just watched it for the second time, in two days, and enjoyed it even more than the first time! The story has the right amount of dialog, action, interesting scenery and it also has a great plot. Bogart is great in his role as an ordinary man who becomes morally twisted by temptations of riches of gold from the dry mountains of Mexico. Tim Holt plays Curtin, his bland but steady partner. But my personal favorite figure in the movie was Howard, the older prospector who is basically at the center of the drama. Howard, played by Directer John Huston's father, Walter Huston, knows how to find and mine gold, and he also knows a thing or two about human nature. Sure, he is all for striking it rich, at least to get just enough money to set himself up for the rest of his life. But he also doesn't take the whole thing too seriously, and he knows how to laugh at the irony of fate when things don't turn out as planned. He's so perfect for the part! His attitude is a perfect foil to the paranoia of Dobbs, and he brings a comic relief when the fortune goes blowing in the wind. I really love it when he laughs his head off and even jumps up and down while he does it! He is able to put it all behind him, finding a good life with the native Americans who befriend him, and he also helps Curtin see the larger picture so he is able to move on to new plans more suited to him. Great film and great story!
(James "Scotman" April, 2009-05-29) The Treasure of Sierra Madre, I was afraid, was going to be a typical '40s western. Wrong! We're introduced to a down and out American bumming off money and who gets hornswaggled by a labor contractor; great build-up by Director John Huston. We find our boys catching gold fever and though at the beginning of the film we find Bogie saying he can leave it all for a few thousand, when the gold bags start piling up, he gets more paranoid, anxious, and "who needs a conscience anyway!" Humphrey Bogart played a pretty mean, unloving character that the audiences of the time did not appreciate, thus it was a box office bomb, even though it won awards for Walter Huston (father of the director) who spots the gold fever early and preps for it. Not a lot I can add to the plot that has not already been said. Loved the black & white photography, rough scenery, gun fights with banditos and an ignoble end to Fred C. Dobbs (Bogart). Some Mexican stereotypes which was typical of films depicting the Hispanic at that time. Lots of Spanish spoken with no subtitles, which lost one star from me. Great action, horrific finale and at the time time painfully ironic. The DVD has a Leonard Maltin synopsis, a funny Bugs Bunny cartoon and several Bogart trailers that want you panting for more. Suggest: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director John Huston: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
(L. Thames, 2009-04-25) If you like Humphrey bogart; you'll love this classic movie; would recommend; great addition to my collection