Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Harry J. Vejar, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Chan, Martin Garralaga, Walter Huston, Jack Holt, Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Pat Flaherty, Tim Holt, Alfonso Bedoya, Arturo Soto Rangel, Manuel Dondé, José Torvay, Margarito Luna, Robert Blake, Ann Sheridan, Jay Silverheels, Guillermo Calles, Roberto Cañedo, Jacqueline Dalya, Ralph Dunn, Julian Rivero, Clifton Young
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Reviews
100
The 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.
100
Like "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.
100
Mr. 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.
100
A distinguished work that will take its place in the repertory of Hollywood's great and enduring achievements.
100
Arguably John Huston's greatest film, this powerful study of masculinity under pressure retains its power.
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