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Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
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...
Orchids must go all around to "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." Besides the three main characters, there is the wonderful portrayal of the child-like but evil Indian chief. There is also the excellent photography of the mountainous Mexican country and the extraordinary dramatic effects that are occasionally obtained merely through the discreet use of the camera. But John Huston, who wrote the screen play and directed, should be the chief recipient of the orchids. The story moves speedily through a number of relevant incidents that contribute to the dramatic tension and to the release that comes when the gold...
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...