
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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| Slant MagazineRob HumanickTranscends the medium to become a mandatory viewing experience for anyone that identifies themselves as a human being, period. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherMr. Huston has shaped a searching drama of the collision of civilization's vicious greeds with the instinct for self-preservation in an environment where all the barriers are down. And, by charting the moods of his prospectors after they have hit a vein of gold, he has done a superb illumination of basic characteristics in men. One might almost reckon that he has filmed an intentional comment here upon the irony of avarice in individuals and in nations today...But don't let this note of intelligence distract your attention from the fact that Mr. Huston is putting it over in a most vivid and exciting action display. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chaw... so good that writing about it is embarrassing. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre is as enduring a classic as has ever come out of Hollywood, and arguably among the greatest, but the film is admittedly not without its share of rough spots. |
| Chicago ReaderDon DrukerJohn Huston was rarely in better form than he was directing this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of prospectors... Bogart is outstanding as the pathetic bully Fred C. Dobbs. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonHuston must have thrown everything he had into this impossibly rich film, packed with grit, passion, adventure and heartbreak. |
| VarietyHerm SchoenfeldA distinguished work that will take its place in the repertory of Hollywood's great and enduring achievements. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonLike "The Searchers", this is so brilliant that the only real effect of the other versions is to make you want to watch the original again. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie has never really been about gold but about character, and Bogart fearlessly makes Fred C. Dobbs into a pathetic, frightened, selfish man -- so sick we would be tempted to pity him, if he were not so undeserving of pity. |
| Cinema WriterJay Antanian all-time masterpiece of characterization, structure, pacing and storytelling in general |