Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Posted by Elliot

A study of greed and how it can wear down a man’s soul. Bogart is wonderful as Fred C. Dobbs (whom Nobody gets the better of); Walter Huston and Tim Holt are his partners in the search for gold. Contains the famous lines Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges! (Side note: Secretive author B. Traven assumed numerous pseudonyms and personae throughout his life.) John Huston (Walter’s son) won Oscars for both direction and screenplay and appears in a bit part at the beginning of the film.