''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' is a 1948 American

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film written and directed by

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. It is an adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, set in 1925, and follows two downtrodden men (played by

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and

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) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector ( Walter Huston, the director's father), in searching for gold in

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. ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' was one of the first Hollywood productions to be shot on location outside the United States (in the state of

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with street scenes in

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, Mexico), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the U.S. In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States

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by the

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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot

In 1925, in the Mexican town of

, labor contractor Pat McCormick recruits Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two broke American drifters, as roughnecks to help construct oil rigs for $8 a day. When the project is completed and the men return to Tampico, McCormick skips out without paying them. The two vagrants encounter an old man named Howard in a flophouse. A loquacious ex-miner, he talks to them about gold prospecting and the perils of striking it rich. Dobbs and Curtin run into McCormick at a cantina, and collect their back wages after a bar fight. When Dobbs hits a small jackpot in the lottery, he, Curtin and Howard have enough money to buy supplies to go prospecting in the interior. Departing Tampico by train, the three help repulse a bandit attack led by "Gold Hat". North of

, the trio head into the remote Sierra Madre mountains. Howard proves to be the hardiest and most knowledgeable of the three. After several days of arduous travel, he spots gold the others had missed. The men toil under harsh conditions and amass a fortune in placer gold. But as the gold piles up, Dobbs becomes increasingly distrustful of the other two. The men agree to divide the gold dust immediately and hide their shares. On a supply trip to Durango, Curtin is spotted making purchases by a Texan named Cody. Cody secretly follows Curtin back to the encampment. When he confronts the three men, they lie about what they are doing there, but he is not fooled. He boldly proposes to join their outfit and share in any future takings. Howard, Curtin and Dobbs discuss it and vote to kill him. As they announce their verdict, pistols in hand, Gold Hat and his bandits arrive. They claim to be ''Federales''. After a tense parley, a gunfight ensues, and Cody is killed. A genuine troop of ''Federales'' suddenly appears and pursues Gold Hat and his gang. The three prospectors examine Cody's personal effects. A letter from a loving wife reveals that he was trying to provide for his family. Moved by the letter, Howard and Curtin agree to give part of their share to Cody's family, though Dobbs declines to do the same. Howard is called away to assist local villagers with a seriously ill little boy. When the boy recovers, the next day, the villagers insist that Howard return with them to be honored. Howard leaves his goods with Dobbs and Curtin and says he will meet them later. Dobbs and Curtin constantly argue, until one night Dobbs shoots Curtin and takes all the gold. Curtin is not dead, and manages to crawl away and hide during the night. Finding Curtin gone, Dobbs flees but is ambushed at a waterhole by Gold Hat and his men. They first toy with him, then kill him. The bandits mistake the bags of gold dust for sand and dump them, taking only the burros and supplies. The gold is scattered by the strong wind. Curtin is discovered by ''indios'' and taken to Howard's village, where he recovers. Gold Hat's gang tries to sell the stolen burros in town but a child recognizes the brands on them (and Dobbs's clothes, which the bandits are wearing) and reports them to the authorities. The bandits are captured and summarily executed by the ''Federales''. Howard and Curtin return to Durango in a dust storm hoping to reclaim their gold, only to find empty bags. At first shaken by the loss, first Howard, then Curtin, grasp the immense

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of their circumstances, and burst into laughter. Howard decides to return to the village to accept an offer of a permanent home and a position of honor, while Curtin sells their recovered property to return to the U.S., where he will seek out Cody's widow. As Curtin leaves, the camera pans down to a cactus as he rides past. Lying next to it is another empty bag.

Cast

Production notes

Pre-production

Director

first read the novel by B. Traven in 1935 and thought the material would make a great movie with his father in the main role. Based on a 19th-century ballad by a German poet, Traven's book reminded Huston of his adventures in the Mexican cavalry. After a smashing success with his directorial debut, '' The Maltese Falcon'', Huston started to work on the project. The studio had

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, and

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in mind for the three main roles, but then World War II intervened.

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was set to direct a version of the story during the World War II years until his script fell afoul of the 1930

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for being derogatory toward Mexicans.

Casting

By the time Huston came back from making several documentaries for the war effort, Humphrey Bogart had become Warner Brothers' biggest star. When Bogart first got wind that Huston might be making a film of the novel, he immediately started badgering Huston for a part. Bogart was given the main role of Fred C. Dobbs. Before filming, Bogart encountered a critic while leaving a New York nightclub. "Wait till you see me in my next picture", he said. "I play the worst shit you ever saw". Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer

Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer

Traven initially disagreed with Huston's decision to cast his father, Walter Huston, as Howard, preferring Lewis Stone, but eventually came to agree with Huston. Walter Huston also questioned his son's choice. He still saw himself as a leading man and was not keen on being cast in a supporting role. His son was able to convince him to accept. John Huston rated his father's performance as the finest piece of acting in any of his films. On seeing Walter Huston's performance, Bogart famously said, "One Huston is bad enough, but two are murder". Huston originally wanted to cast

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as James Cody.

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instead insisted on casting Reagan in another film. Bruce Bennett was eventually cast in the role. A few notable uncredited actors appear in the film. In an opening cameo, John Huston is pestered for money by Bogart's character, directed by Bogart. Robert Blake also appears as a young boy selling lottery tickets. A photograph included in the documentary accompanying the DVD release shows

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in streetwalker costume, with Bogart and Huston on the set. Many film-history sources credit Sheridan for a part. Co-star Tim Holt's father, Jack Holt, a star of silent and early sound Westerns and action films, makes a one-line appearance at the beginning of the film as one of the men down on their luck.

Filming

''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed on location outside the U.S. (in the state of

and street scenes in

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), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the U.S. Filming took five and a half months. Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Still

Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Still

The first scene in the film with Bogart and Holt was the first to be shot. The opening scenes, filmed in longshot on the Plaza de la Libertad in Tampico, show contemporary (1940s) cars and buses, even though the story opens in 1925, as evidenced by the lottery number's poster. Just as Huston was starting to shoot scenes in Tampico, the local government inexplicably shut the production down. The cast and crew were at a complete loss to understand, since Tampico's residents and government had so far been generous. It turned out that a local newspaper had printed a false story accusing the film of being unflattering to Mexico. Huston soon found out why the newspaper skewered his production. When you wanted to do anything in Tampico, it was customary to bribe the editor of the newspaper, which the crew had failed to do. Fortunately, two of Huston's associates,

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and Miguel Covarrubias, went to bat for the director with the president of Mexico. The libelous accusations were dropped, and a few weeks later, the editor of the newspaper was caught ''

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'' and shot dead by a jealous husband. Most of the Mexican extras were paid 10 pesos a day, the equivalent of $2, a considerable amount for an impoverished region at the time. There were scenes in which Walter Huston had to speak fluent Spanish, a language he did not know. John Huston hired a Mexican to record the lines and then the elder Huston memorized them so well that many thought he knew the language. As with most of the Mexican actors selected from the local population,

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's heavily accented pronunciation of English proved a bit of a problem ("horseback" sounded like "whore's back"). Bogart knew only two Spanish words, "Dos Equis", a Mexican beer. The fight scene in the cantina took five days to shoot. During the shooting of the entire film, John Huston pulled pranks on Bennett, Bedoya (along with Bogart), and Bogart. While most of the film was shot in Mexico, Jack L. Warner had the unit return to Hollywood when the budget started to exceed three million dollars. Though the

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impressed Warner Bros., Jack L. Warner nearly went berserk with the weekly expenditures. After viewing one scene, Warner threw up his hands and shouted to producer Henry Blanke, "Yeah, they're looking for gold all right—mine!" During another screening of dailies, Warner watched Dobbs stumble along in the desert for water. Warner jumped up in the middle of the scene and shouted to a gaggle of executives, "If that s.o.b. doesn't find water soon I'll go broke!". Warner had reason to be upset. John Huston and Blanke led him to believe that the film would be an easy picture to make and that they would be in and out of Mexico in a matter of weeks. Warner was notorious for not actually reading scripts and had assumed the film was a B-movie Western. As the full extent of Huston's plans became apparent, Warner became quite angry. He was especially unhappy with the way the film ended, arguing that audiences wouldn't accept it. The initial box office take was indeed unimpressive, but the film was a huge critical success and more than earned back its original investment of $3 million in its many rereleases. As production dragged on, Bogart, an avid yachtsman, was getting increasingly anxious about missing the Honolulu Race in which he usually took part. Despite assurances from the studio that his work would be done by then, he started to pester Huston about finishing in time. Eventually, Huston had enough, grabbed Bogart by the nose, and twisted hard. Bogart never again asked him to confirm when shooting was expected to be over. The windstorm in the final scene was created by jet engines borrowed from the

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Edited scene

Huston's original filmed depiction of Dobbs's death was more graphic—as it was in the book—than the one that made it onto the screen. When Gold Hat strikes Dobbs with his machete, Dobbs is decapitated. Huston shot Dobbs's (fake) head rolling into the waterhole (a quick shot of Gold Hat's accomplices reacting to Dobbs's rolling head remains in the film, and in the very next shot one can see the water rippling where it rolled in). The 1948 censors would not allow that, so Huston camouflaged the cut shot with a repeat shot of Gold Hat striking Dobbs. Warner Bros.' publicity department released a statement that Bogart was "disappointed the scene couldn't be shown in all its graphic glory." Bogart's reaction was: "What's wrong with showing a guy getting his head cut off?"

John Huston's screenplay

John Huston's adaptation of Traven's novel was altered to meet Hays Code regulations, which severely limited profanity in film. The original line from the novel was: :"Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned '' cabrón'' and '' chinga tu madre''!" The dialogue as written for the film is: : Gold Hat: "We are ''Federales'' ... you know, the mounted police." : Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?" : Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" Gold Hat's response as written by Huston and delivered by Bedoya has become famous, and is often misquoted as "We don't need no stinking badges!" In 2005, the quotation was chosen as No. 36 on the

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list, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

Themes

The film is often described as a story about the corrupting influence of greed. Film critic

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expanded upon this idea, writing, "The movie has never really been about gold but about character." Reviewers have also noted the importance not just of greed and gold, but of nature and its desolateness as an influence on the actions of the men. But the film's ability to comment on human nature generally has been questioned, as Dobbs is so evidently flawed from the outset.

Reception

According to ''

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,'' the film earned $2.3 million in the U.S. in 1948. According to Warner Bros. records, it earned $2,746,000 domestically and $1,349,000 foreign. At the

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, ''The Treasure of The Sierra Madre'' received four nominations, and won three awards: Best Supporting Actor for Walter Huston, and Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for John Huston, his only Oscars. There has been controversy since the 1949 ceremony because of the academy's choice not to nominate Bogart for the

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, a choice that modern critics and

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members have since condemned. Bogart's performance has been named the best of his career. British actor Daniel Day-Lewis said that his second Oscar-winning performance as vicious oil baron Daniel Plainview in ''

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'' was heavily inspired by Bogart's portrayal of Fred C. Dobbs. On

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, the film is one of the few that have an approval rating of 100%, based on 50 reviews, and an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest." ''The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre'' is now considered to be among the best films of all time, with some critics calling it Huston's magnum opus.

Awards and honors

In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States

by the

as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was among the first 100 films to be selected. Critic

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listed ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' as one of the "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century." The Directors Guild of America called it the 57th best-directed movie of all time. Director

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listed ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' as his 4th favorite film of all time in a 1963 edition of ''Cinema'' magazine. Director

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ranked it as his favorite film of all time in an interview with

and director

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watched it at night before bed while writing ''

''. Director

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listed it as one of the "87 Films Every Aspiring Director Should See." ''

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'' creator Vince Gilligan has also cited the film as one of his personal favorites and has said that Dobbs was a key influence in creating the character of

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. A key scene from the film was emulated in "

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", the sixth episode of the series' fifth season. ;

recognition * AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – No. 30 * AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills – No. 67 * AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: ** " Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" – No. 36 * AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 38

In Popular Culture

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song " Fools Gold" was inspired by the film. Songwriter

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said, "Three geezers who are skint and they put their money together to get equipment to go looking for gold. ... Then they all betray each other... That's what the song is about." Fred C. Dobbs appears in the

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short '' 8 Ball Bunny'', delivering his signature phrase: "Say, pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?". ''

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'' references the film with the (misquoted) line "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" ''

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'' misquotes the same line as: "I don't need no stinkin' badgers!". The '' Fallout: New Vegas'' expansion pack ''Dead Money'' was inspired by the film. The expansion takes place in the Sierra Madre Casino, a pre-war casino which supposedly has a fortune in gold hidden in its vaults. It's stated that many wasteland prospectors died looking for the treasure. At the end of the expansion, the player finds the gold but is forced to leave almost all of it behind, as it's too heavy to carry while they escape.

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