The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) other... That's what the song is about."" 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
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