A powerful morality tale whose humour is as black as the heart of its central character, but as humane as the men who survive their brush with greed.
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04/20/09
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:37
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Consensus: Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: A good Joe, a bad egg and a fast-talking old coot team up to prospect for gold south of the border, but when the gold starts flowing, greed breeds badge-less bandits and mutual mistrust. A classic!... [More]
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Director: John Huston
Reviews for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Top CriticThis is so brilliant that the only real effect of the other versions is to make you want to watch the original again.
04/20/09
Top CriticThere's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter.
02/09/06
Top CriticArguably John Huston's greatest film, this powerful study of masculinity under pressure retains its power.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe intense heat, thirst and near starvation suffered by the three main characters may prove wearisome to some women patrons. Males will best appreciate this 'red meat' fare.
06/05/02
Top CriticTreasure of Sierra Madre is one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made.
04/20/09
Top CriticAn all-time classic; Bogart wonderful, but Walter Huston steals the show; a timeless treasure not to be missed.
03/27/03
Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in Treasure of Sierra Madre.
05/20/03
Top CriticSierra Madre is one of the most lush black & white films ever shot. You'll never look at a gila monster the same way after seeing it slither across the sand in this film.
09/30/03
No review available.
10/09/05
A pure classic.
10/13/07
The film is an unforgettable study of the erosive effect that the love of money can have on flawed men's characters.
04/12/02
The film plays as a morality fable, showing that the deadliest dangers to man are in his soul and not from the external dangers.
01/01/00
John Huston has rarely been in better form than in this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of prospectors...
07/02/07
No review available.
06/30/05
No review available.
06/24/04
The characters here are probed and thoroughly penetrated, not through psychoanalysis but through a crucible of human conflict, action, gesture and expressive facial tones.
02/13/01
Top CriticNo review available.
07/02/04
Huston must have thrown everything he had into this impossibly rich film, packed with grit, passion, adventure and heartbreak.
05/29/09
No review available.
08/09/02
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