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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 6065
Released: September 30, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
John Huston won the Academy Award(R) for writing and directing this powerful saga that pits gold and greed in the wilds of Mexico and stars his father (Walter Huston) and Humphrey Bogart. Year: 1948 Director: John Huston Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Description of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Ranked at No. 30 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 all-time greatest American films, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a genuine masterpiece that was, ironically, a box-office failure when released in 1948. At that time audiences didn't accept Humphrey Bogart in a role that was intentionally unappealing, but time has proven this to be one of Bogart's very best performances. It's a grand adventure and a superior character study built around the timeless themes of greed and moral corruption. As adapted by writer-director John Huston (from a novel by enigmatic author B. Traven) it became a definitive treatment of fate and futility in the obsessive pursuit of wealth. Bogart plays Fred C. Dobbs, a down-and-out wage-worker in Mexico who stakes his meager earnings on a gold-prospecting expedition to the Sierra mountains. He's joined by a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston, the director's father) and a young, no-nonsense partner (Tim Holt), and when they strike a rich vein of gold, the movie becomes an observant study of wretched human behavior. Bogart is fiercely intense as his character grows increasingly paranoid and violent; Huston offers a compelling contrast as a weathered miner who's seen how gold can turn men into monsters.
From its lively opening scenes (featuring young Robert Blake as a boy selling lottery tickets) to its final, devastating image of fateful irony, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tells an unforgettable story of tragedy and truth. With dialogue that has been etched into the cultural consciousness (who can forget the Mexican bandit who snarls "I don't have to show you any stinking badges!") and well-earned Oscars for John and Walter Huston, this is an American classic that still packs a punch. --Jeff Shannon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Greed. The Final Frontier. 
2009-11-05 - What's the big deal with this movie?
Oh, people just *love* it! Oh, it's so *great*! Oh, what a WONDERFUL story!
Are you kidding me?
Get off it, pal. There wasn't one car chase in the entire movie. Not one.
What, Mexicans can't drive cars? (Nice way to stereotype a minority.)
And who got schtupped in this turkey? Tell me. Nobody. No sex. No nookie. No guy coming up to Bogie and asking him if he wanted to see "peectures of my seeester."
And where were Jack Benny and Mel ("Si"-"Sue"-"Cy") Blanc?
The only good part of this movie was when Humpty Bogart came out of the barber shop all dolled up and sees a prostitute walking down the street. Of course since the movie was made in 1948 and, as such, Bogie wasn't issued genitalia by the prop department, nothing happened. ... But, by God, his *heart* was in the right place!
I especially liked the prostitute scene because the prostitute was played by Ann Sheridan who, back in the day (and I have this on good biology-based authority)-- back in the day Ann Sheridan was one of the horniest babes in Hollywood. ... OH, YEAH!
"How horny was she???"
(Thank you Ed McMahon, wherever you are.)
Ann Sheridan was so horny that when she walked down the street the L.A. Fire Dept. was not only put on full alert but was also force-fed vitamin-enriched saltpeter.
In short, this was some *SMOKIN'* dame. (Ow-Oww-Oooooowwwwwwweeeee!)
So how did John Huston, et al (and, by the way, who *did* eat Al?) utilize this magnificent, heavenly creature? ... We glimpsed her. ... That was it: we *glimpsed* her uncredited derriere. (Sacre bleu! C'est dommage!)
What? -- Humpty Bogart couldn't have gone over to her and asked her to stand on a mirror?
What? -- Hump, Tim and Wally Huston couldn't have asked her to come along with them to look for gold? Why not? Wouldn't it have delighted the critics, wouldn't it have been "simply marvelous" to see all four of them huddled around the campfire, eating pork 'n beans, playing "Spin the Bottle" and feeling each other up?
In deep focus.
Oh, how the critics would have swooned!
Instead, what's the movie about -- three smelly guys: hiking, digging, kvetching, spritzing.
Moreover, what was wrong with Humpty Bogart wanting ALL the gold? Isn't that "The American Way"? ... What possible objection could any good red-blooded CEO have to screw-screw-screwin'-'em-all? ... You do that long enough, Pilgrim, you'll not only get on Charlie Rose's show, the archbishop will dedicate a hospital in your name.
Frankly, I would have like to have seen Humpty Bogart drift over to the set of "It's A Wonderful Life" and show Jimmy Stewart how a savings and loan company *should* be run. Take all the townspeople's money, shove Clarence the Angel into the river and schtup the beejeebers out of Gloria Grahame.
YEAH! YEAH, BABY!
Humpty Bogie may have gotten enough money together for a shave and a haircut, but did even one of these three guys take a *bath* during the movie? You know they didn't. You know they stunk up the flophouse. You know they smelled like limburger cheese. ("Mo, Larry, the cheese! Mo, Larry, the cheese!") You know you wouldn't let even your terminally ugly sister go out with any of these slimeballs.
And, come on already with Wally-World Huston. Two knuckleheads meet this Gabby Hayes wannabe in a flophouse and all of a sudden they all go looking for gold. ... Right!
Walter Huston couldn't find his rear end with three hands and a posse.
Meanwhile where's that cutie-pie Ann Sheridan while these three idiots are looking for gold? ... Playing hide the salami with the badgeless, libidinous Me-xi-cano bandito.
Come on, be honest, what would you rather see -- three brain-addled morons driving picks into the side of a mountain or Ann Sheridan workin' on the railroad with Speedy Gonzalez?
And John Huston, the director, The Great White Hunter -- shooting an elephant in his pajamas. (How Groucho Marx and an elephant got in his pajamas, I'll *never* know.)
And, still, how you *rave* about how wonderful this movie is. Oh, you must see it, you must, you must! ... And why? ... Because it's supposed to teach us a moral? But what's the moral: don't be greedy? Whooooaaaa! Hold on, comrade, "don't be greedy"? Are you serious? What are you a commie? A godless pinko commie? If the moral of this movie is not to be greedy then, pal, THIS MOVIE IS SUBVERSIVE! wHY, it's downright un-American!
Encourage American NOT to be greedy! What next, a musical about Karl Marx? "The Life and Loves of Nikita Krushchev." An episode of "Dancing with the Stars" featuring The Little Baby Jesus?
Don't you know what it says in the Beatitudes: "Blessed are the greedy, for there's a sucker born every minute. And two guys to take 'im."
You want to NOT be greedy? You want maybe to ruin capitalism?
CONSTABLE!!!
You may think you're foolin' other people but you're not kidding me, buddy. If you were Tim Holt, out there in the desert, alone with Humpty Bogart, you would have shot him, took all the gold and bought custom-made inflatable dolls of all 36 Rockettes.
Or else you would have sunk a wad of dough in an all-lesbian version of "12 Angry Men."
Or bought shares in an electric yo-yo factory.
Or gleefully have invested with Bernie Madoff, avant la deluge.
So, pleeze, cut the crap, Farrell, this movie isn't a classic. And it isn't about no stinkin' morals. ... Morals! Morals! ... We don't need no anarcho-existential, pseudo-diluvian, neo-Kantian, post-Freudian, pre-Thelonious, quasi-Proustian, contrapposto, hippie-dippie, swishy-wishy, smelly-welly, Woody-no-goody, John-Wayne-of-a-pain, John-Huston's-a-goosin', stinkin' morality tale!
Know what this movie sorely lacks? Chicks! And lots of 'em!
The Treasure of Sierra Madre 
2009-09-16 - A very good me, of course Humphrey Bogart was one of the best actors. Jeanne
It Is One Of The Two Best Films Based On Greed!
2009-07-11 - I have to agree with the first reviewer, this film, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, along with Greed are the best films about Greed ever made. This one has beautiful deep focus photography, great writing, direction and acting. (Greed does too.) The more I see this film, the more I find in the film. No shot is left to chance and everything drives the story forward. Humphrey Bogart plays a shifty character from the US traveling to Mexico to search for gold in the Sierra Madre mountain range. He has no money and begs other Americans for money. Finally he is given a job and uses the money to go into the gold digging business with other Americans played by Tim Holt and Walter Huston. What happens then is tragic. The men all want gold but Humphrey Bogart's character is willing to stop at nothing to get it while the others seem to have some scruples.... or do they? Wonderful, hard bitten film.
Yes! This dusty old movie is a real treasure
2009-06-07 - I just watched it for the second time, in two days, and enjoyed it even more than the first time! The story has the right amount of dialog, action, interesting scenery and it also has a great plot. Bogart is great in his role as an ordinary man who becomes morally twisted by temptations of riches of gold from the dry mountains of Mexico. Tim Holt plays Curtin, his bland but steady partner. But my personal favorite figure in the movie was Howard, the older prospector who is basically at the center of the drama. Howard, played by Directer John Huston's father, Walter Huston, knows how to find and mine gold, and he also knows a thing or two about human nature. Sure, he is all for striking it rich, at least to get just enough money to set himself up for the rest of his life. But he also doesn't take the whole thing too seriously, and he knows how to laugh at the irony of fate when things don't turn out as planned. He's so perfect for the part! His attitude is a perfect foil to the paranoia of Dobbs, and he brings a comic relief when the fortune goes blowing in the wind. I really love it when he laughs his head off and even jumps up and down while he does it! He is able to put it all behind him, finding a good life with the native Americans who befriend him, and he also helps Curtin see the larger picture so he is able to move on to new plans more suited to him.
Great film and great story!
No Stinkin' Badges Here! Bogart Best! 
2009-05-29 - The Treasure of Sierra Madre, I was afraid, was going to be a typical '40s western. Wrong! We're introduced to a down and out American bumming off money and who gets hornswaggled by a labor contractor; great build-up by Director John Huston.
We find our boys catching gold fever and though at the beginning of the film we find Bogie saying he can leave it all for a few thousand, when the gold bags start piling up, he gets more paranoid, anxious, and "who needs a conscience anyway!"
Humphrey Bogart played a pretty mean, unloving character that the audiences of the time did not appreciate, thus it was a box office bomb, even though it won awards for Walter Huston (father of the director) who spots the gold fever early and preps for it.
Not a lot I can add to the plot that has not already been said. Loved the black & white photography, rough scenery, gun fights with banditos and an ignoble end to Fred C. Dobbs (Bogart).
Some Mexican stereotypes which was typical of films depicting the Hispanic at that time. Lots of Spanish spoken with no subtitles, which lost one star from me.
Great action, horrific finale and at the time time painfully ironic.
The DVD has a Leonard Maltin synopsis, a funny Bugs Bunny cartoon and several Bogart trailers that want you panting for more.
Suggest:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director
John Huston: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
