Bogart Film Fest Movie
#3 (Note: this film is also known as “Treasure of Sierra Madre”, as the VHS
jacket indicates)
Synopsis: Bogie
goes bananas.
Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “Pure cinematic gold! This triple Academy-Award winner well
deserves its status as a renowned classic... Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and
Tim Holt play a trio of Americans on the bum in 1920s Tampico. Pooling their
resources, they strike off into the mountains of Mexico in search of gold.
Hounded by jungle Indians, a fortune-hunting Texan (Bruce Bennett) and
cold-blooded banditos (led by Alfonso ‘I don’t have to show you no stinkin’
badges’ Bedoya), they finally must confront the most dangerous adversaries of
all... themselves.”
What Did I Learn?:
Don’t ever go into business with a paranoid whackjob.
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Movie If: You’ve always wanted to know where this joke (see 04:30), and this joke came
from.
Really?: 1) Mexican
bandits can’t recognize bags of gold dust? Oh, come on... 2) So wait, Curtin
(Tim Holt) saves Bogie’s life twice (once from a cave-in, and again from a gila
monster) and he’s still convinced there’s some plot to kill him and grab his
cut? I guess that could happen, but really...?
Rating: The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a thoughtful, yet exciting action movie (it’s almost
a Western) with plenty of twists and turns, as well as two excellent
performances from Bogart and Walter Huston. My only complaint would be that I
had some trouble believing Dobbs (Bogart) would take a heel turn after Curtin
and the old man saved his life a number of times, but I guess we can chalk that
one up to gold fever. 9/10 stars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/
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