The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Fantastic movie with great cast and a thrilling story. Bogart performs great.

I wanted something very special to be my 5,000th film (at least to my horrible memory and to my stats on IMDb), and so after brazen and intense thought, I decided on a later-than-expected watch of a classic from Bogart's association with John Huston. I say later than expected because I bought the immaculate 24-film Humphrey Bogart Collection, which was supposed to have it on its 12 double-sided DVDs, but it accidentally had, in its place, the special features disc, which held excellent feature-length documentaries on both John Huston and the making of the film. Thus I waited until recently, when I found the blu for a very good price and went for it.

It was worth the wait. The ultimate tale of sordid greed. Without going into detail or sp...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film whose pleasures lie in the how as opposed to the what. Not long into the movie, Howard (Walter Huston) spells out the plot in broad strokes: Never knew a prospector yet that died rich going with a partner or two is dangerous. Murder's always lurkin' about. Partners accusin' each other of all sorts of crimes as long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last, but when the piles of gold begin to grow, that's when the trouble starts.

The movie then unfolds with all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy (with Howard doing Cassandra one better, because not even he heeds his own prediction). The storys destination thus secured, writer/director John Huston doesnt rush headlong for the finish ...

An excellent film that deserves to be remembered today, more than seventy years later.

It's curious to see a film where a group of Americans go to Mexico to experience in Mexican lands what many Mexicans now go through in the USA: hunger, unemployment and difficulties in surviving. However, this is how this film begins, which presents us with a group of three Americans with no prospects for improving their lives who decide to invest everything in a treasure hunt by becoming gold prospectors in the most remote mountains of Mexico.

The film continues with Americans surviving various hardships and revealing the worst of themselves due to gold fever, a type of greed that affects those who seek to get rich quickly by mining the most co...