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
Walter Huston appeared in a play, "Mr. Pitt". Several more Broadway plays solidified his fame, e.g., "Desire Under the Elms, Kongo, The Barker, Elmer the Great "and" Dodsworth." Once talkies began in Hollywood, he achieved fame in both character roles and as a leading man. His first major role was portraying the villainous Trampas in the western "The Virginian" (1929) with Gary Cooper. He starred as the title character in the Broadway theatrical adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel "Dodsworth" in 1934 and the play's film version two years later. For his role as Sam Dodsworth, Huston won the New York Critic's Circle