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Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
Above all, "The Treasure" is a unique Hollywood product. The cliches of romantic interest have almost been avoided; the movie has violent action, but for other purposes than immediate sensation; both Humphrey Bogart, who has been playing the same stock tough man for the last five or six years, and Walter Huston, whose last important part was in "Duel in the Sun," are able to do some original acting. The result is a movie with some power, a movie different from anything Hollywood has previously produced...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...
...Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) has nosed around after gold a good deal of his life; he cheerfully warns the greenhorns of what gold can do to a man's character. They don't believe him, but they find out for themselves. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), a morally chaotic child of perhaps 40, starts coming apart early with bluster, fear and suspicion of his partners. Curtin (Tim Holt), a relatively stable youth, nearly cracks, too, under pressure, but gradually comes of age. The men run into jungle Indians, have to deal with a Texan (Bruce Bennett...
...Humphrey Bogart & wife Lauren Bacall took special pains to explain about themselves and Communism, at a Chicago press conference. Bogart read a prepared statement about their trip to Washington (six weeks ago) to protest the Reds-in-Hollywood investigation: "I am not a Communist . . . I am not sympathetic . . . I see now that my trip was illadvised, foolish and impetuous . . . I acted impetuously and foolishly on the spur of the moment, like I am sure many other American citizens do at many times." Then he put the script down and explained: "We went in green. They beat our brains...