The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) consensus reads, "Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest." John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1948 for his work on "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". Walter Huston, John Huston's father, also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film, the first father-son win. The film was nominated for the Best Picture award, but lost to Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of "Hamlet". In 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National
Harpoon (1948 film) "childish", and the acting and direction as "painfully amateurish". The ship used during the production of "Harpoon", "The Flying Kate", is referenced in John S. Bohne's 2001 book "The Sea Change", which describes the film as "a rough sea adventure made from a rather bad script". The Danches wanted to make a follow up, "The Vanishing Isle" and "The Kind of Kapu". Neither appears to have been made. However Scott did make "Arctic Manhunt" (1948), shot mostly in Alaska. Harpoon (1948 film) Harpoon is a 1948 American adventure film directed and produced by Ewing Scott, and starring John Bromfield in