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
John Huston best ever made. Huston died nearly four months before the film's release date. In the 1996 RTE documentary "John Huston: An t-Éireannach", Anjelica said that "it was very important for my father to make that film." She contends that Huston did not think that it was going to be his last film, but that it was his love letter to Ireland and the Irish. Toward the end of his career he also began to act in various films. In 1963, director Otto Preminger asked if he would portray a Boston prelate in "The Cardinal", and, writes author Philip Kemp, he