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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, USA, 1948)

  • The Lord Palmerston 33 Dartmouth Park Hill London, NW5 1HU (map)
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Treasure 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.
— Time Magazine

Fred C Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) are a couple of out-of-work Americans barely scraping-by in Tampico, Mexico. After pooling their resources and convincing a grisly old prospector (Walter Huston) to come into business with them, the three set off into the Sierra Madre Mountains to mine for gold. A brilliantly-told shaggy dog story of gold, greed and paranoia from John Huston (last seen at the Tufnell Park Film Club playing nasty ol’ Noah Cross in Polanski’s Chinatown). 

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Trailer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/ Director: John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
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