Title: The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre 1948 Source:
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Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Director: John Huston
Writers: John Huston (screenplay), B. Traven (based on the novel by)
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
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The scene I like best is when the bandidos try to sneak up on the gold miners, but the miners know they are coming. When the bandidos claim to be the police, Bogart says, "If you're the police, where are your badges?" The head bandido says, "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no stinking badges!"
An amazing movie. Love the choral music where he's reviving the native child..... here's some worthless tripe from a recent genealogy mailing to my family:
Grandfather once said we were related to movie stars Jack and Tim Holt. Didn't even occur to us while repeatedly marveling at Treasure of the Sierra Madre on TV in the 1960s --
JH was thus JM's GGGS, Mother's 3rd coz making Tim "our" (baby boomers') 4th, nice and neat. One of 36 founders of the Motion Picture Academy, he 'was the visual inspiration for Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" and Al Capp's "Fearless Fosdick"' -- Wikipedia. Hmmm!:
Randolph Scott was a good NC boy but I can't find another Randolph in his roots, so he's out in the cold ;-) Gram Parsons of the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers -- and of Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" -- was a Nicolas Martiau descendant with us and George Washington, though Yorktown is accidentally whisked from VA to PA here: