The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in Treasure of Sierra Madre. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: John Huston has rarely been in better form than in this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of prospectors... Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

TIME Magazine: Treasure of Sierra Madre 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. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: There's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter. Read more

Herb Schoenfeld, Variety: The characters here are probed and thoroughly penetrated, not through psychoanalysis but through a crucible of human conflict, action, gesture and expressive facial tones. Read more