The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)
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| Directed by | John Huston |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Screenplay by | John Huston |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven |
| Starring |
Humphrey Bogart Walter Huston Tim Holt Bruce Bennett |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Ted D. McCord |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $4,307,000 (rentals) |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American dramatic adventurous neo-western written and directed by John Huston. It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), who in the 1920s join old-timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed on location outside the United States (in the state of Durango and street scenes in Tampico, Mexico), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the US. The film is quite faithful to the source novel. In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
By the 1920s in Mexico the violence of the Mexican Revolution had largely subsided, although scattered gangs of bandits continued to terrorize the countryside. The newly established post-revolution government relied on the effective, but ruthless, Federal Police, commonly known as the Federales, to patrol remote areas and dispose of the bandits.
Foreigners, like three gold prospectors from the U.S. (Fred, Bob, and Howard) were at very real risk of being murdered by the bandits if their paths crossed. The bandits suffered a similar fate if captured by the Mexican Federales or army units. On-the-spot, bandidos were forced to dig their own graves and given a "last cigarette" before the death sentence was carried out.
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