The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American dramatic adventurous neo-western written and directed by John Huston. It is an adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, set in the 1920s, in which, driven by their desperate economic plight, two young men, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), join old-timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was one of the first Hollywood productions to be shot on location outside the United States
Danny Huston and author Zoe Sallis and director John Huston, adoptive half-brother of Pablo Huston, half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston and screenwriter Tony Huston, uncle of actor Jack Huston, and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. His father was an American and Irish citizen, and also had English, Welsh, Scotch-Irish and Scottish ancestry, and his mother was of Indian and English descent. His father, John Huston, produced Danny's first feature as a director, "Mr. North", an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's last novel, "Theophilus North". In 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas", he moved in front of the camera and has since acted in