Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
When three very different people go looking for gold together and find it, the ending generally will not be happy. "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" does end happily, but only after one of the characters has been killed and the gold returns to the earth. It is a theme with a number of rather obvious allegorical possibilities concerning the doings of both men and nations, and this unusual picture manages to hint at them painlessly, without verbosity or undue lengthiness...
Treasure of Sierra Madre (Warner) 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. But unlike many films of high quality, it does not wear its art on its sleeve. This admirable reticence may earn Treasure some peculiar awards. Movie trade papers are treating it as a western; Daily Variety called it "action stuff with heavy masculine appeal." Reviewer Virginia Wright wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News: "[The] audience . . . seemed to find [Treasure] hilariously funny and, once having decided...
...Sierra Nevadas will unfold countless new types of ski runs before the eyes of the Harvard parallel slat addict, much-traveled members of the Crimson ski team aver. He will be confronted with fabulously long runs, deep snow, steeper grades, and, in many instances, frustrating and maniacally devised slalom courses marked by 150 pines...
Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile...