THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
D: John Huston (1948) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt,
Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya
Three down-and-out gringos pool their resources on a grubstake and head out into the Mexican wilderness to look for gold. This being a John Huston movie, they find what they're looking for, or seem to, but there's a cost. Huston won Oscars for writing and directing it, and his old man got one for best supporting actor, minus his upper teeth. Bogart slips into paranoia and madness after taking a blow to the head, and a bandit claiming to be a lawman famously insists he don't need no stinking badge. Based on a novel by the enigmatic B. Traven. Some of it prefigures "The Wild Bunch".
