The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)

Director: John Huston
Country: United States 

"These burros have a long road ahead of them!"

This is a treasure I discovered thanks to Mr. William Friedkin, (and I will always be grateful to him for that), a combination between film noir and western, resulting in a simply beautiful work. "Sierra Madre" is one of the most complete films I ever seen and a magnificent adventure through Mexico with unexpected consequences. 

 

Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogard and Tim Holt did excellent performances, creating the perfect chemistry and atmosphere to build a story in which greed and corruption rules the world, or at least theirs, John Huston did a superb directorial work too, writing a great screenplay by himself, choosing the perfect actors (including his own father) and locations in Mexico and hiring one of the best composers of all time: Max Steiner, who was already famous for his work in "King Kong" (1933), "The Oklahoma Kid" (1939), "Gone With The Wind" (1939), "Casablanca" (1942), among many others. 

 

I recommend you to buy some cervezas, turn off the lights, turn up the sound and be ready to see the greatest movie ever made about greed and...burros.