The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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1948
2h 6m
NR
English
Adventure, Drama, Western
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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.
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Cast
Fred C. Dobbs
Howard
Bob Curtin
James Cody
Pat McCormick
Gold Hat
El Presidente
El Jefe
Pablo
Pancho
Mexican Boy Selling Lottery Tickets...
Mexican Storeowner (uncredited)
Mexican Lieutenant (uncredited)
Proprietor (uncredited)
Flashy Girl (uncredited)
Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
Mexican Bandit (uncredited)
Customer in Bar Who Warns Curtin an...
Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
American in Tampico in White Suit (...
Indian (uncredited)
Child (uncredited)
Barber (uncredited)
Howard's Assistant (uncredited)
Directed By: John Huston
Written By: John Huston (Screenplay), B. Traven (Novel)
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talisencrw
6 years ago
I wanted something very special to be my 5,000th film (at least to my horrible memory and to my stats on IMDb), and so after brazen and intense thought, I decided on a later-than-expected watch of a classic from Bogart's association with John Huston. I say later than expected because I bought the im More
JPRetana
2 years ago
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film whose pleasures lie in the ‘how’ as opposed to the ‘what.’ Not long into the movie, Howard (Walter Huston) spells out the plot in broad strokes: “Never knew a prospector yet that died rich … going with a partner or two is dangerous. Murder's alw More
Filipe Manuel Neto
12 months ago
**An excellent film that deserves to be remembered today, more than seventy years later.**
It's curious to see a film where a group of Americans go to Mexico to experience in Mexican lands what many Mexicans now go through in the USA: hunger, unemployment and difficulties in surviving. However, t More
It's curious to see a film where a group of Americans go to Mexico to experience in Mexican lands what many Mexicans now go through in the USA: hunger, unemployment and difficulties in surviving. However, t More
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