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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}}
 
{{quote| '''Howard:''' Aah, gold's a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 handsome smackers worth of it. "So help me, Lord, and cross my heart." Fine resolution. After months of sweatin' yourself dizzy, and growin' short on provisions, and findin' nothin', you finally come down to 15,000, then ten. Finally, you say, "Lord, let me just find $5,000 worth and I'll never ask for anythin' more the rest of my life."<br />
'''Flophouse Bum:''' $5,000 is a lot of money.<br />
'''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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'''This film features examples of:'''
 
* [[All That Glitters]]
* [[Bandito]]: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote).
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" The quote at the top of this page is what he actually said.
** Also, Bogey's panhandling line at the beginning of the film ("Say, mister, could you stake a fellow American to a meal?") is usually misremembered as the line from the [[Shout-Out]] gag in the [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''8 Ball Bunny'' ("Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?").
* [[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 Byby Materialism]]: {{spoiler|Dobbs.}}
* [[Fedora of Asskicking]]: Dobbs wears one.
* [[Gold Fever]]: A driving force. Provides the page quote.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Dobbs and Curtin give the foreman of their work crew one of these after he cheats them out of their pay.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Fixing the mountain when they leave, {{spoiler|burying Cody's body, and informing his widow}}.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Humphrey Bogart as a straight-up villain.
** Villainy was actually Bogart's hat before he really hit it big (though this was much later). See ''[[High Sierra]]'' and ''[[The Petrified Forest]]''.
* [[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-Only Death]]: A few: {{spoiler|gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(altoughalthough he doesn't get killed.}}. Justified as it is an old film: they may've have been missing special effects, or didn't want to get sensuredcensured.
* [[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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[[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 Forties]]▼
[[Category:The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]
[[Category:Film]]
▲[[Category:Index of Film Westerns]]
▲[[Category:TheFilms FortiesBased on Novels]]
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