Filmmaker reacts to The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) for the FIRST TIME! 

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Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, stated countless times that The Treasure of Sierra Madre was the most significant influence on his inspiration to create Breaking Bad.

One of my all time favorites. Another great film with Bogart playing a deranged character is "The Caine Mutiny".

The Man Who Would Be King is another great John Huston movie if you haven't seen it yet.

Such a great movie! One of my favorites. Walter Huston steals the show.

One thing I like about this movie is that Howard never pretends to be more moral than anyone else. He has wisdom gained from experience, but he knows he has the capacity for greed and avarice. The kid who sells the lottery ticket was played by Robert Blake, who got his start in the Our Gang comedy shorts, and later starred in the TV cop show Baretta.

A great example of how good the old movies were. They were still discovering how to make films and it's really amazing the things they came up with and how they still influence cinema today.

This one is a top 10 for me. Phenomenal film and remains so fresh. Love the character study of Dobbs and how greed can corrupt a man's soul.

Another great choice. Huston's not a director that gets talked about these days but he has a pretty varied body of work. I mean his first movie was The Maltese Falcon. Some of my favorites I think you should check out are The Man Who Would Be King, Fat City, and Prizzi's Honor.

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges 📛

One of director John Huston's best films and a primary lesson in scriptwriting.

James, remember when you watched Chinatown, that evil old man Noah Cross? That was John Huston, director of this movie, who also appears in this one as the white suited big cigar man at the beginning. The old miner was Walter Huston, his father.

I had to stop and think a minute about your insightful comment at 16:50 regarding films taking the time to "sit with themselves." I think there's a lot of merit to that statement, especially in a film like this where there are so many action scenes. It gives the audience a chance to breathe, to decompress, to return to a level stretch after all the ups and downs. Another great reaction that I really enjoyed!

Thank you, James, for taking the time to understand and to appreciate how the best classic films of long ago are every bit as well-made and as important as anything modern. And thank you for sharing your insights with all of us!!

Here’s food for thought: Coal Miner’s Daughter.

One of the few times Humfrey Bogart played the antagonist and boy did he ever lean into it. Easily on my top 5 films of all time. The old man's laughter brightens my day every time I see it. Great vid!

The physicality of Bogart's performance is impressive. His ape-like stand from a crouch when Curtin falls asleep is just impressive. This is just a plain great story. This film is like the best Steinbeck and Stephen Crane adaptation even though neither writer had anything to do with it.

Gold Hat was played by Alfonso Bedoya. His last role was in William Wyler's The Big Country. Very talented man who died far too young.

Damn! Some fine old school film choices on here. Been checking some of your back catalogue. Decent. Some I wonder if you have: from the UK 1940s golden age, The Third Man, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, or Italian Bicycle Thieves, a great short from Spain that is practically a silent film from the 70s, La Cabina - just 30 minutes, near no dialogue but tonnes of suspense. Really, wow! gotta see! and a real silent gem from USSR: Man with a Movie Camera

So excited to FINALLY see a reaction to this great movie...especially your channel. Looking forward to your commentary!

Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Walter Huston. Walter Huston is also the father of John Huston the director.

Glad you did this one. Bogart had a bunch good movies but this one is my favorite. A buddy and me did gold prospecting in Colorado one year, barely made more than the costs of a permit and claim.

Note to screenwriters: know your classics! The plot of this movie is basically Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale, from the Canterbury Tales. And what a wonderful story it inspired!

Such a classic film. It’s awesome you’re watching this James, hope you’re doing well!

I've been waiting so long for one of my regular RU-vid watches to cover this film. It was Humphrey Bogart's favorite of his films, and he does a great job.

One of my favorites of all time! I actually have the original book but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet

The little kid who got water thrown in his face is Robert Blake ( former member of the Little Rascals and later on the crime television show "Barretta " ) which was a highly successful show in the mid to late 70's . The man in the white suit is John Huston( one of the greatest directors of All Time ). Then you have Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston, and Tim Holt. The Huston family has 4 generations of Academy Award winners. They are the First Family of Cinema ! It's important, being a filmmaker yourself, to know these pillars of the industry !! Keep up the good work !!!

I absolutely love this film! I watched it last year and I was blown away

Interesting your bringing up The Thing. Even though you were talking about the breakdown of trust, more relevant in the Carpenter remake, I was thinking of the Howard Hawks original. The Dialogue is what I thought of.

Alfonso Bedoya (El Bandito) said "Mounted" Police, not 'mountain police'. He delivered the classic line "We don't have no badges. We don't NEEEED no badges!" but ALWAYS misquoted as "STINKING badges", and became an almost instant meme in Parodyland and Satireville - by late night comics and mimics, and in BLAZING SADDLES, and Al Yankovic's UHF , etc. BUT YOU MISSED IT! Bogart was such a good actor everyone hated him in this, but loved him in CASABLANCA (and delivered the classic line he NEVER said, in "Play it again, Sam."). As pointed out, Director Houston's father won an Oscar playing the old prospector.

Let’s gooo! I love this film, had no idea you were gonna react to it

A superb movie, with the wonderful Walter Huston, Howard, who played the delightful, grizzled and elderly gold prospector. He was a truly mesmerising character, who I couldn’t take off my eyes off, whenever he was appeared in a scene. Also, Bogart put in a great acting performance as Fred C Dobbs, who played the ultimate cynical character, who became so totally obsessed with amassing the maximum amount of gold, he became mentally deranged. Special mention too on Tim Holt’s performance as Curtin, the quiet, and more introspective younger man. ‘Treasure of Sierra Madre’ in my humble view is one of the truly great films of the cinema.

James, I'm happy to see you react to this movie. Every time someone reacts to Casablanca I always hope that someone will react to this movie. I have been watching this move for well over fifty years. Howard (Walter Huston) is my favorite character. When Howard laughs at the end of the movie after losing everything is always my favorite part. Even as a kid I got the point of that scene. There is a movie that I doubt very many people know about. The movie is The List of Adrian Messenger starring Kirk Douglas and George C. Scott. It's another movie from my childhood. I love special make-up effects in movies and I think this movie is what started my fascination with movie make-up. I think you would like this movie James. I don't want to say too much about the movie so you can watch it "cold."

It's about time someone did this classic

Great reaction! This is a timeless movie, such a great character study.

This is my favorite Bogart film, The little kid selling lottery tickets is former Little Rascals star and future Murder suspect Robert Blake.

Had to look it up: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the early Hollywood productions to be shot on location outside the United States (in the state of Durango with street scenes in Tampico, Mexico)."

The little boy who sold the lottery ticket to Humphrey Bogart was played by Robert Blake. Loved your to reaction.

One of my all time favorite movies! So great!

Need to do “The Caine Mutiny” for your next Bogart film! He plays a great antagonist!

I recommended this after the Casablanca reaction, and while I'm not a patron, I hope a patron saw it and recommended it too.

An earlier and equally impressive performance by Walter Huston is in "Dodsworth" from 1936.

Always been a fan of Humphrey Gokart. If you haven’t (or even have) seen “The Big Sleep”, recommend you cover it on this stream. Also highly recommend all of Raymond Chandler’s books, he’s the king daddy of Noir crime fiction. Apologies if you’re already familiar.

Every detail in this movie, and there are some most people would overlook, is part of the story, a very moral story.

One behind the scenes story has to do with John Huston asking his father to take the upper plate of his dentures out to play Howard. Walter resisted, but eventually agreed. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor.

Humphrey Bogart's performance as a man who decsends into madness is probably his best...

In the opening minutes there is a cameo by the films director/writer John Huston. He is the tall man in the white suit with the big cigar. The old man is Walter Huston the director's father.

Among the greatest American films ever made. If you liked _Treasure Of The Sierra Madre,_ similar essential classics for the list: _Rififi_ (dir. Jules Dassin, 1955) _A Face In The Crowd_ (dir. Elia Kazan, 1957) Walter Huston (the old man) was the "Tom Hanks of the 1930s" - a massive star & father of John Huston, the director of _Treasure,_ _The Maltese Falcon,_ and the villain in _Chinatown._ More Walter Huston: the classic _Dodsworth_ (1936)

Bogart's best role with a great performance.

Thanks James, for giving me a reason to re-watch my favorite movies in a new light.

This is my favorite Bogart movie. He got a chance to really show his range. Not to mention the story is a classic with timeless themes and the whole cast is great. Especially Walter Huston, who pretty much embodies the old wily prospector character in this. And of course, this is where we get the always misquoted line about proper identification. XD

Goldlust madness kills. The old man is buried in a cemetery in the older part of the city I live in. He's the father of the director, who played the man dressed in white getting his shoes shined.

Howard (old man) is easily the best character of the movie. From his mannerisms, quips , and being a gosh darn great guy, how can you not like him

Nice job. It must have been hard to edit this given there are so many good scenes. In my view, this is in the top five best movies of all time.

Bogey and John Huston had kind of a DeNiro/Scorsese thing going.

Walter Huston is always a delight to watch. You might try "The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) which is also called "All that Money Can Buy."

One of my favorites. In some ways it reminds of another modern favorite, The Big Short

You saw deeper into this movie than I ever did. Fred Dobbs is played by Humphrey Bogart. The guy in white suit was the film's director, John Huston. You'll like Bogart in moves like The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, The Petrified Forest, The Maltese Falcon and especially The Caine Mutiny. All masterpieces from different directors that were very influential on films made up to this day. The Caine Mutiny has Jose Ferrer in it, too, so that's just an extra experience of remarkable acting.

Old man directors father and won academy award for his performance in this movie one of my favorite movies

‘Smeagol’d out?’ That’s just hilarious man, lol

Badges?... We don't need no stinking badges!!! Line was referenced in "Blazing Saddles".

Cool Hand Luke

🎼”Sometimes you have to try to get along dear I know the truth and I know what you're thinking”. 🎶

A true classic

i love this movie!

The kid who had the drink thrown in his face is Robert Blake.

“ I dont have to show you no stinkin badges”!!!!! And i am Latino so i can say that

One of my all-time favorite films. Love that you reacted to this one. If you haven't seen Sorceror from William Friedkin, I'd definitely say react to that one in the future.

A Cracker Jack of a tale…my favorite. FYI the American Dobbs keeps hitting on in the beginning is director John Houston who is also the son of the old prospector, Walter Houston.

The boy who got a drink tossed in his face was Robert Blake.

One of the all time greats:)

Great movie this is a true classic

One of the best american films of all time with a timely moral at it's core. And as good as Bogey and Tim Holt are, the movie belongs to Walter Huston! Plus shout out to Alfonso Bedoya as the lead bandit who manages to be chilling, creepy and hilarious all at once.

That was John Houston in the beginning wearing the whit suit and hat and reading the newspaper.

One of my Top-10 Favorite Films and my most cherished black and white ever! I cozy up and hunker down in my fridged Milwaukee winters with the black and white classics. The Treasure of Sierra Madre is always on my December-February watch-list. Two things: 1) Bogart's morphing into a paranoid psycho is one of Hollywood's most amazing performances. 2) Did you catch the little boy selling the lottery ticket as iconic (and troubled) actor Robert Blake? (Baretta)

I think the film Midnight Cowboy would be a great fit on this journey. No, it's not a Western. Best Picture winner.

Im glad you're jumping into some more old 💎's ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ if u need more just ask💯 this movie is so badass & perfect even for its time & it geys better with each viewing too Fun fact: this was on Spike Lee's top 5 favorites of all time & theres a lost scene of Bogart getting his head cut off & kicked into the puddle he was drinking out of but it would have never made it into the movie because of the time era it came out💯

Great choice!

Definitely a top ten film of mine.

Cody is one of my favorite characters in the movie, from a script writing standpoint he's amazing at audience control, the audience has been slowly seeing this split between our main group, and as the movie was going on before his arival the audience is almost taking sides with each character depending on their point of view, the moment cody shows up you see this splintering group quickly make up and take each others sides again to keep away this "threat" and the audience sorta agrees, he could be a threat, and has been too nice. But the moment they go to kill him and see the bandits come we see another big shift in the group in the addition of Cody, this man they were going to execute is now another gun on their side to keep their gold safe, and the audience switches over too, we understand they need all the help they could get out here.

Wonderful!

The kid selling the lottery tickets in this movie was played by Robert Blake ( In Cold Blood movie and the series Baretta). He just died in March of 2023. Also, this director played the old man in Chinatown who slept with his daughter.

Well since you have watched "Treasure" there are 2 more Bogart / Houston movies for you to watch - "Key Largo" - " The African Queen" - both excellent films.

Good for you for watching it in black & white. It is superior than the coloured version imo

James you need to watch Bogart's In a Lonely Place. Its one of best films I've every seen.

I looked up how much $35,000 was in 1925. Today it would about $600,000. That’s a lot of money, but it’s not as much as you would think. I could see why certain personalities would still want more and how it could get out of hand.

Director Joh Houston plays the guy in the white suit and hat Bogart aske for money of him several times. They had Houston play that bit part as a little joke of his and Bogart.

Key Largo a great movie by John Huston. Also under the volcano and wise blood are great movies.

Hi James, if you want to watch another a perfect 'script' movie then I'd highly recommend 'Withnail & I' it's a classic British drama/comedy from the 1980s, every line is quotable.

John Huston is worth getting into as a director. My favorite of his is an adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story, The Man Who Would Be King, and stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine in a buddy adventure film GOAT contender. The movie is probably more culturally sensitive than the story; Kipling was an avowed imperialist. I first saw it at the age of 10, in a double feature with Lawrence of Arabia in a small, second run theater in the siburb where I grew up. My Dad took me. My parents may have been rubes who subjected a trans child to conversion therapy, but at least they had good taste in movies. Huston was making great movies into the 1980s. It's a deep well.

This is about as good as it gets.

Howard was the real treasure all along.

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

classic

This movie is awesome. I love a good tale of greed and misfortune.

One of my favorites - book and movie both. Since you are interested in the writing you really need to look into the man who wrote the novel this film was based on. His pen name was B Traven, but his true identity is something of a mystery. He lived for many years in Mexico but he may have been from Germany originally. The rumors about him are many including one theory that he might have been the illegitimate son of the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. Traven was apparently something of a radical politically and was connected with the cause of the IWW (International Workers of the World - i.e. the Wobblies - "one big union"). There is a photo of Traven on the set of this movie talking with the director John Huston (Traven was employed as a story consultant on the film). His true identity remains one of the great literary mysteries for the ages.

13:36 - It isn't, though their bite could potentially cause you to lose your finger, or at least be in crippling pain for a full day or two.

great movie 5 stars

Always trust that mic!

It is the guy from Casablanca