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{{quote|"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"|'''Gold Hat''', saying it as how he, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not]] [[Blazing Saddles|Mel Brooks]] said it}}
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'''Flophouse Bum:''' $5,000 is a lot of money.
'''Howard:''' Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more. }}
''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'' is a 1948 film directed and written by [[John Huston]], staring his father Walter and [[Humphrey Bogart]], and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[Academy Award|Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.
A trio of gringos in Mexico; Fred Dobbs, Bob Curtin and Howard the prospector, decide to search for gold in the eponymous mountain range. At first, the adventure seems simple enough; in fact, they even find their gold. What they didn't count on might just be the greatest obstacle of all: themselves.
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* [[All That Glitters]]
* [[Bandito]]: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote).
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Dobbs' insanity catches up with him, he dies, and the treasure is lost; rendering 10 months of Curtin and Howard's lives a waste. But Howard gets a nice position as a medicine man, and Curtin may yet get his dream of a nice peach farm.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The burros the group rent. Or rather, their branding marks. {{spoiler|The bandits who kill Dobbs are caught when someone recognizes the mark.}}
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Howard.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: That's John Huston as the white-suited man Dobbs keeps accosting for a handout in Tampico.
* [[Death
* [[Fedora of Asskicking]]: Dobbs wears one.
* [[Gold Fever]]: A driving force. Provides the page quote.
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* [[Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico]]: The fake Federales exemplify this.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Gold Hat insists on putting his hat back on before {{spoiler|being executed}}.
* [[No
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Fixing the mountain when they leave, {{spoiler|burying Cody's body, and informing his widow}}.
* [[Prospector]]: All three main characters, but Howard in particular exemplifies the "old and grizzled" stereotype of the trope.
** The character of Stinky Pete in ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' is a direct parody of Howard.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Dobbs. Howard {{spoiler|mentions it happening to his comrades before}}.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The technical aspect of mining is brought out courtesy of Howard's lectures.
* [[Sound
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Even getting rescued from a mine collapse and then a Gila monster doesn't make Dobbs any less suspicious of his partners.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: It will surprise nobody who pays attention for the first ten minutes to know that Dobbs turns out this way.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
[[Category:National Film Registry]]h
[[Category:Index of Film Westerns]]▼
[[Category:Academy Award]]
[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]
[[Category:The
▲[[Category:The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]
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