The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Directed by John Huston
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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A film-length commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax is academic but accessible and informative, while the first disc is rounded out with a gallery of trailers for the Bogie flicks The Petrified Forest, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Key Largo, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Audiences might best know Bogart for his role as Rick in "Casablanca," but as Dobbs he does his most intense work since "The Petrified Forest."
And though Holt is the most often ignored of the three leads (too many dismiss him out of hand as a B-movie staple), in watching a scene where he struggles with whether or not to save a partner from a cave-in one is reminded that Holt spent time in films like My Darling Clementine and The Magnificent Ambersons.
It's an amusing performance (easier to take than Hepburn's, at any rate), although it doesn't compare to his work in High Sierra, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny and a handful of other indelible turns.
A film-length commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax is academic but accessible and informative, while the first disc is rounded out with a gallery of trailers for the Bogie flicks The Petrified Forest, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Key Largo, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Humphrey Bogart, forever associated with tough-hero roles in films like Casablanca and The Big Sleep , gave some of his best performances in darker roles (e.g., The Caine Mutiny, High Sierra).
Along with “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” “The Maltese Falcon” has been released with a full slate of bonus features on the Blu-ray.
After a long wait, Humphrey Bogart finally broke through to stardom in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon .
Bogart's break in pictures came in John Huston's own first film, "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), after the much bigger Warner Bros. star, George Raft , turned it down.
A film-length commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax is academic but accessible and informative, while the first disc is rounded out with a gallery of trailers for the Bogie flicks The Petrified Forest, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, Key Largo, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
After all, he had spent most of the 1930's typecast as a movie gangster, finally breaking the mold with his cynical, hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and reaching the zenith of romanticized, world-weary antiheroes with Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" (1942).
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It's an amusing performance (easier to take than Hepburn's, at any rate), although it doesn't compare to his work in High Sierra, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny and a handful of other indelible turns.
After all, he had spent most of the 1930's typecast as a movie gangster, finally breaking the mold with his cynical, hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and reaching the zenith of romanticized, world-weary antiheroes with Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" (1942).