History Film / TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre

* BittersweetEnding: Dobbs' insanity catches up with him, he dies, and the treasure is lost; rendering 10 months of Curtin and Howard's lives a waste. But Howard gets a nice position as a medicine man, and Curtin may yet get his dream of a nice peach farm.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Cody is treated as an odd man out when he approaches the group with the intention of joining them. [[spoiler:Which leads to the decision to kill him.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Dobbs certainly gets his when the "Federales" he had been bad-mouthing earlier turn up. You almost feel sorry for him. ''Almost''.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Howard, being the only one who doesn't consider killing his comrades. Admittedly, he ''does'' kill off a few bandits (but that was purely in self-defense), and the only voluntary killing he comes close to doing is [[spoiler:shooting Cody (which in turn was a result of being overruled in the decision by Dobbs and Curtin.]] Noticeably, when Cody is given a chance to prove himself by keeping an eye on the fake Federales, Howard is all for letting him live, though, which shows he was relieved to not have to kill him.

* PetTheDog: Fixing the mountain when they leave, burying Cody's body, and informing his widow.

* SoundOnlyDeath: A few: Gold Hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob (although he doesn't get killed.)

* WorthlessYellowRocks: The bandits who kill Dobbs steal his gold, but mistake it for sand and dump it off; it gets blown away by a windstorm.

* CoolOldGuy: Howard.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Dobbs gradually grows into this role into the group as TheCynic viewpoint, where it gets so bad that he generates most of the conflict in the story because of his opportunity to become somebody. The only time his cynicism helped the mining group was running off the bandits the first time. Other than that, well...

* '''GoldFever:''' A driving force in the plot. Howard seems mostly immune to it, remaining rational throughout, but Dobbs and Howard both succumb to the disease. [[spoiler:Dobbs]] is the only one who turns to killing to make sure he comes out on top, however.

* DeathByMaterialism: Dobbs.

* '''GoldFever:''' A driving force in the plot.

* VillainProtagonist: It will surprise nobody who pays attention for the first ten minutes to know that Dobbs turns out this way.

-->'''Gold Hat''': Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

* HappyDance: Courtesy of Howard.

* NiceHat: Gold Hat insists on putting his hat back on before [[spoiler:being executed]].

* PetTheDog: Fixing the mountain when they leave, [[spoiler: burying Cody's body, and informing his widow]].

* SanitySlippage: Dobbs. Howard [[spoiler:mentions it happening to his comrades before]].
* SoundOnlyDeath: A few: [[spoiler:gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(altough he doesn't get killed.]]. Justified as it is an old film: they may've been missing special effects, or didn't want to get censored.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: [[spoiler: The bandits who kill Dobbs steal his gold, but mistake it for sand and dump it off; it gets blown away by a windstorm.]]
** Or given Dobbs and the others' descent into madness, [[spoiler: and the ease with which the gold blew away]], maybe the bandits were right.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Dobbs' insanity catches up with him, he dies, and the treasure is lost; rendering 10 months of Curtin and Howard's lives a waste. But Howard gets a nice position as a medicine man, and Curtin may yet get his dream of a nice peach farm.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The burros the group rent. Or rather, their branding marks. [[spoiler:The bandits who kill Dobbs are caught when someone recognizes the mark.]]

* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler: Dobbs.]]

* BeamMeUpScotty: "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" The quote ''actually'' goes "We don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!'
** Also, Bogey's panhandling line at the beginning of the film ("Say, mister, could you stake a fellow American to a meal?") is usually misremembered as the line from the ShoutOut gag in the Characters/BugsBunny cartoon ''8 Ball Bunny'' ("Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?").

* PlayingAgainstType: Humphrey Bogart as a straight-up villain.
** Villainy was actually Bogart's hat before he really hit it big (though this was much later). See ''HighSierra'' and ''ThePetrifiedForest''.

''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' is a 1948 film directed and written by JohnHuston, starring his father WalterHuston and HumphreyBogart, and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[AcademyAward Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

** The character of Stinky Pete in ''ToyStory2'' is a direct parody of Howard.

* '''GoldFever:''' A driving force. Provides the page quote.

''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' is a 1948 film directed and written by JohnHuston, starring his father Walter and HumphreyBogart, and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[AcademyAward Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' is a 1948 film directed and written by JohnHuston, staring his father Walter and HumphreyBogart, and adapted from a 1927 novel by B. Traven. Father and son both won [[AcademyAward Oscars]] for their achievements in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

* {{Bandito}}: The fake Federales who deliver the film's most famous line (the page quote).
* BeamMeUpScotty: "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" The quote at the top of this page is what he actually said.

* SoundOnlyDeath: A few: [[spoiler:gold hat, Dobbs, banditos, Bob(altough he doesn't get killed.]]. Justified as it is an old film: they may've been missing special effects, or didn't want to get sensured.

* GoldFever: A driving force. Provides the page quote.

'''This film features examples of:'''

-> '''Howard:''' Aah, gold's a devilish sort of thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 handsome smackers worth of it. "So help me, Lord, and cross my heart." Fine resolution. After months of sweatin' yourself dizzy, and growin' short on provisions, and findin' nothin', you finally come down to 15,000, then ten. Finally, you say, "Lord, let me just find $5,000 worth and I'll never ask for anythin' more the rest of my life."
-> '''Flophouse Bum:''' $5,000 is a lot of money.
-> '''Howard:''' Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot. But I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away. Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Ten, you'd want to get twenty-five; twenty-five you'd want to get fifty; fifty, a hundred. Like roulette. One more turn, you know. Always one more.

->"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
--> --'''Gold Hat''', saying it as how he, [[BeamMeUpScotty not]] [[Film/BlazingSaddles Mel Brooks]] said it

--> --'''Gold Hat''', saying it as how he, [[BeamMeUpScotty not]] [[BlazingSaddles Mel Brooks]] said it

** Also, Bogey's panhandling line at the beginning of the film ("Say, mister, could you stake a fellow American to a meal?") is usually misremembered as the line from the ShoutOut gag in the {{Characters/Bugs Bunny}} cartoon ''8 Ball Bunny'' ("Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?").

* WholePlotReference: ''TheSimpsons'' had an episode that replaced the main characters with Bart, Milhouse, and Martin, and the gold with a rare comic book.
** ''FalloutNewVegas'' has its first {{DLC}} doing this, except the Sierra Madre is a casino. The gold is either the gold hidden in the vault of the casino, or the secret of the technology as a whole, but either way, people kill each other over it.
** And in the ''{{Rugrats}}'' episode "The Gold Rush". After discovering a nickel in the sandbox, the babies and Angelica get [[strike: gold]] nickel fever, and paranoia sets in. The reference is doubled, when just like the gold, the nickel is eventually reclaimed by the wind & sand.
*** Not to mention Chuckie saying "We don't '''need''' no stinking nickels!"
** The short story ''In the Hall of the Mountain King'' by Jerry Pournell and S.M. Stirling sets the tale on Wunderland shortly after the planet's liberation from the [[KnownSpace kzin occupation]].

* FedoraOfAsskicking

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