Huston must have thrown everything he had into this impossibly rich film, packed with grit, passion, adventure and heartbreak.
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05/29/09
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:37
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Consensus: Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A good Joe, a bad egg and a fast-talking old coot team up to prospect for gold south of the border, but when the gold starts flowing, greed breeds badge-less bandits and mutual mistrust. A classic!... [More]
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Director: John Huston
Reviews for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
... so good that writing about it is embarrassing.
10/16/03
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is a classic tale of the elusive search for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains by a trio of ill-matched
01/01/00
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...
07/02/07
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.
01/15/04
Top CriticThere's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter.
02/09/06
Riveting, downbeat, and surprising, a gripping adventure and one of Hollywood's most resonant morality tales… a smart, remorseless story of gold, greed, guns, and guile.
06/14/04
The film is an unforgettable study of the erosive effect that the love of money can have on flawed men's characters.
04/12/02
Much of the film's strength comes from director John Huston's pen and attention to detail.
11/30/03
Sierra Madre is one of the most lush black & white films ever shot. You'll never look at a gila monster the same way after seeing it slither across the sand in this film.
09/30/03
This is so brilliant that the only real effect of the other versions is to make you want to watch the original again.
04/20/09
Top Critic...a profound examination of mistrust and avarice, leading to greed, deception, and murder.
09/29/03
The movie is a classic.
01/05/04
The characters here are probed and thoroughly penetrated, not through psychoanalysis but through a crucible of human conflict, action, gesture and expressive facial tones.
02/13/01
Top CriticThe film plays as a morality fable, showing that the deadliest dangers to man are in his soul and not from the external dangers.
01/01/00
Uma fabulosa atuação de Humphrey Bogart (completamente esquecido no Oscar daquele ano, numa das maiores injustiças que a Academia já cometeu).
05/31/02
The intense heat, thirst and near starvation suffered by the three main characters may prove wearisome to some women patrons. Males will best appreciate this 'red meat' fare.
06/05/02
Treasure of Sierra Madre is one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made.
04/20/09
Arguably John Huston's greatest film, this powerful study of masculinity under pressure retains its power.
01/01/00
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