Name: Classic Films: The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Start: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-07:00
Location: 1231 Vandercook Way, Longview, WA, United States, Washington 98632

Classic Films: The Treasure of The Sierra Madre

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Neo-Western filmrn film written and directed by John Huston, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and Walter Huston - the director's father. Based on B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, the film follows two downtrodden men who join forces with a grizzled old prospector, in searching for gold in Mexico.
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.