

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.8M
- Box office
- $4.3M
- Language
- English
- gold
- mexico
- based on novel or book
- greed
- gold rush
- gold mine
- friends
- money
- american
- bandit
- prospector
- 1920s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California14 Jan 1948
- Theatrical (limited)NR15 Jan 1948
- Theatrical24 Jan 1948
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG16 Aug 1948
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical1 Apr 1948
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1227 Sept 1949
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTTU11 Feb 2004
DenmarkDK
- TV1515 Jan 1948
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1620 Aug 1948
FranceFR
- TheatricalU11 Feb 1949
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/7983/der-schatz-der-sierra-madre14 Jun 1949
GreeceGR
- Theatrical136 Oct 2003
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival30 Aug 1948
JapanJP
- TheatricalG24 May 1949
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was released on 15 January 1948.
Audience reviews
4- A9/10
Andres Gomez
11/29/2012
Fantastic movie with great cast and a thrilling story. Bogart performs great.
- T10/10
talisencrw
8/4/2016
I wanted something very special to be my 5,000th film (at least to my horrible memory and to my stats on IMDb), and so after brazen and intense thought, I decided on a later-than-expected watch of a classic from Bogart's association with John Huston. I say later than expected because I bought the immaculate 24-film Humphrey Bogart Collection, which was supposed to have it on its 12 double-sided DVDs, but it accidenta…
- T7/10
tmdb28039023
9/6/2022
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film whose pleasures lie in the ‘how’ as opposed to the ‘what.’ Not long into the movie, Howard (Walter Huston) spells out the plot in broad strokes: “Never knew a prospector yet that died rich … going with a partner or two is dangerous. Murder's always lurkin' about. Partners accusin' each other of all sorts of crimes … as long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last…
- F8/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/28/2023
**An excellent film that deserves to be remembered today, more than seventy years later.** It's curious to see a film where a group of Americans go to Mexico to experience in Mexican lands what many Mexicans now go through in the USA: hunger, unemployment and difficulties in surviving. However, this is how this film begins, which presents us with a group of three Americans with no prospects for improving their liv…
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