Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor as the treacherous female foil. Bogart's sharp timing and facial expressions were praised by the cast and director as vital to the quick action and rapid-fire dialogue. The film was a huge hit in theaters and a major triumph for Huston. Bogart was unusually happy with it, remarking, "it is practically a masterpiece. I don't have many things I'm proud of ... but that's one". Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's "Casablanca", playing Rick Blaine, a hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner hiding from a shady past while negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) other surgeons, they plot to get him to stay by making Burns believe there is gold in the nearby Korean hills. Letting his greed override his better judgment, Burns revokes his transfer. It has been said that the Stone Roses song Fools Gold is about the film. Singer and lyricist Ian "Brown almost whispers his cryptic blank verse which, he claimed, was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart movie 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. "Three geezers who are skint and they put their money together to get equipment to go looking for gold," he said. "Then they all betray each