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
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
1948 · 2h 6m · Approved
Adventure, Drama, Western
Directed by
John Huston
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Huston Director
- Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs
- Walter Huston as Howard
- Tim Holt as Bob Curtin
- Bruce Bennett as James Cody
- Barton MacLane as Pat McCormick
- Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat
- Arturo Soto Rangel as El Presidente
- Manuel Dondé as El Jefe
- José Torvay as Pablo
- Robert Blake as Mexican Boy Selling Lottery Tickets (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out
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
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
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
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