The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the ...
Adventure, Drama, Western
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1948
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Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
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Runtime:
126 min
Release date:
15 Jan 1948
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$3,800,000
Revenue:
$4,307,000
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. 18 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
John Huston has rarely been in better form than in this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of prospectors...
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
2 Jul 2007
fresh:
There's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The movie has never really been about gold but about character, and Bogart fearlessly makes Fred C. Dobbs into a pathetic, frightened, selfish man -- so sick we would be tempted to pity him, if he were not so undeserving of pity.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
15 Jan 2004
fresh:
Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in Treasure of Sierra Madre.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
The characters here are probed and thoroughly penetrated, not through psychoanalysis but through a crucible of human conflict, action, gesture and expressive facial tones.
– Herb Schoenfeld,
Variety,
13 Feb 2001