 WMAQ AM and FM, Chicago, a service of RCA, 8 p.m. for pleasure and relaxation, it's Pepsi Cola. Present Hollywood. Leverbrothers Company, the makers of Luck Toilets, will bring you the Luck's Radio Theatre, Zarring. Edmund O'Brien and Walter Brennan is the treasure of the Sierra Madre. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Commick. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you another of our 20 greats, the exciting never-ending drama of Man's Greed For Gold. It's that fine Warner Brothers picture, the treasure of the Sierra Madre. And as our stars, one of this year's nominees for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Edmund O'Brien, one of the treasure of the Sierra Madre. Starring Edmund O'Brien as Dove and Walter Brennan as Howard. The first time I come up with them was in Campico. That's a seaport, Campico, northeast Mexico. Now, it's having me a beer near the docks when they come in. It's a hot Sunday afternoon. You're a fellow American. That's right, mister. What do you want? I want to know about a guy named McCormick. Have I heard of him? McCormick, McCormick, well, is he in the oil business? Yeah, you seen him lately? Well, if I were a huge gentleman, I'd run clear of McCormick. Hires a crew to work in the oil fields. Then never pays off. He's slick, like oil. Yeah, yeah, that's right. You don't mean to tell me he's hooked two smart fellow Americans like you? That's right, Pop. Six weeks in the oil fields, 120 in the shade. Tony, I ain't through with Mr. McCormick. Fred C. Dobbs is going to get his wages, see? Come on, Dobbs. Let's have a beer. I see him again that night. They come wandering in the flop house. Fifty cent tavels for a bid. Me, I'm sitting up talking to a couple of sailors. The subject of conversation is gold. You mean there's gold here in Mexico? Not ten days away from this very spot. Whole mountain of gold. Waiting for the right guy to come along. I'll have her a treasure and then tickle it because she lets him have it. Now you tell me something, Mr. Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? I don't know, Pop, because it's scarce, I guess. Look, a thousand men say go searching for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky. One out of a thousand. His fine represents not only his labor, but that of 999 others to boot. An ounce of gold, Mr., is worth what it is because of the human labor and suffering that went into the getting of it. I never thought of it just like that. Yeah, when you start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 smackers of it. After months of sweating yourself dizzy and growing short on provisions and finding nothing, you finally come down to 15,000. Then ten. Why don't you say, Lord, let me just have $5,000 worth. I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life. $5,000 is still a lot of dough. Yeah, but if you make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away, Mr. Not even the threat of a miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more. Get 10, you want 25. 25, you want to get 50. 50, 100. Wouldn't be that way with me. Oh, hello, Mr. You didn't find the comic, huh? No, I'll find them. But about gold, I swear it wouldn't be that way with me. I take only what I set out to get. Now, Doug, gold all over the world. I know what gold does to a man. You talk as if you once struck it rich. I'm about it, Pop. Yeah, what are you doing in here, Pop, or down another? That's gold, Mr. Never knew a prospecting yet that died rich. Sure, I'm a nod old bone now, but don't you guys think the spirit's gone? I'm all set to shoulder, pick on the shovel any time anybody's willing to share expenses. Oh, I bet you are. Of course, going alone's the best way, but you got to have a stomach for loneliness. And then, on the other hand, going with a partner, too, is dangerous. Murder's all it's left and about. Partners accusing each other of all sorts of madness. Well, why should finding gold make a man any different? He's the right kind of man to start with. Gold ain't going to change him. Have you ever tried running down, Mr. Ever tried prospecting? No, no, I ain't. You didn't have to answer that question. I knew the answers. You know it all, Pop. I think I'll go to bed. Dream about piles of gold growing bigger and bigger and bigger. A week later, I see them again, dobs and curtain, all lumps and bloodied up. Looking for me, they were. Something to tell me. They take me to a canteen and put a bottle of beer in them and all. We found a comic, Pop. From the looks of you, you've found a pick of trouble, too. But we got our wages, every last penny of it. And we've been thinking, why not try digging gold for a change? Well, it ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break. And this is a country where the nuggets of gold are just crying for you to take them out of the ground. Well, that's what you said the other night, wasn't it? Yeah, what's so funny? Living out in the open, cheaper than living in town. Our money, black launders? Sure, Edward, sure. You have to have equipment. You know how much that'd cost? Well, we figured we'd ask you. We ain't denying anything when you come right down to it. We don't know too much about prospecting. If you wasn't so old... Yeah, maybe I'd go with you. Is that what's on your mind? Maybe you'd take me along, huh? Well, would you? Would you go? Of course I'll go, anytime, any day. Out the gold, always at your service. Well, I got 200 American bucks ready, Cash. How much dough you guys got to put in? 150 bucks. Curtain here has got the same. Total of 500, huh? Ain't hardly enough to buy tools, weapons, and essentials. Well, what do we need guns for? Well, for one thing meat. For another thing, bandits. Bandit countries where we'd be going. We ought to have 600 bucks between us anyways. That much, huh? You can't dig up any more, huh? Not a red cent. Get away from me, will you? No, you don't come for years. You'll comprehend a glass full of beer right in your kiss if you don't leave me alone. I tell you, I don't want any lottery tickets, and I'll beat it. Go on. Lottery tickets? Why, that's for gambling men. But always whoever wins a lucky number gives the driver a present of 10%. Wait a minute, what are you talking about? He's trying to tell you he sold you a winning ticket. Here, look, the least of all the winning numbers. You buy tickets for five cents a month, remember? Four, three weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, I remember. What about it? You win, senior! You win! Give me that paper. Oh, brother! Just look at that fat, rich, printed number, huh? You got the ticket? Here, I got the ticket. Welcome, sweet little smacker-o's. Here you are, sonny. Here's a present for you with my blessings. Go to the lobby office, senior. Get the money. Congratulations. Congratulations yourself. You stand a profit out of this, same as I do. Well, how do you figure that? Well, didn't he just say we needed 600 bucks? Well, look, that's what we got now, ain't it? Yes, just like that, stroke of faith. But how come you're putting up for me? Because this is an all or nothing proposition. If we make a fine, we'll be lightin' cigars with $100 bills. If we don't, the difference between what you put up and what I put up ain't enough to keep me from being right back where I was this afternoon. Put it there, boy. Thanks, Doc. Well, gentlemen, here's what we'll do. We'll take a train to Perla. That's Little Town for the Sierra Madra Mountains. That's where we'll buy our burrs and get away from the railroad. Now, there's no use lookin' for gold anywhere near the railroad. We've got to go away where there's no trails at all. We'll just bandage. Sounds okay to me. Okay, partner? Sure, sure. We've got to go where no surveyor, anybody who knows anything about prospecting's ever been before. Well, drink up, gentlemen. Then we'll buy us a map of some railroad tickets. We bought about half our gear there and changed people. Then we took the train for Perla. About 50 miles from Perla out in the desert, there was a big boulder on the tracks. Bandits. Trying to raid the train. Look, they're retreating. They're riding off. Maybe I bought it, Mr. Dodd. It's too far off now. I got three of them. Credit me with three. How many did you get? A couple there, I guess. Bandits, yeah. I guess they were expected. That's how come so many federal soldiers are riding this train. That bandit rode right up to the train. The one with the gold hat there? Yeah, I had my sights on him, nice as you pleased, but the train gave a jolt and I missed him. Well, you boys cooled off and let's look at this map. Oh, yeah, sure, sure. It ain't much of a map. You don't properly show where there's mountain or desert. That shows the makers of the map didn't know the sales and... Well, that's good. What are you doing, Dubs? Reloading. Can't tell if them bandits may come back. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Wake me up when the shooting starts. Una a comedia luna riva. Este lo mismo. Una a comedia luna riva. Hey, Pa, what's he saying? He's proving he's got a right to sell us them birds. They all got the same brand. See, let's read. I will load your supplies on the borough, senor. Thanks, son, thanks. My father is much worried for you, senor. Worried what he worried for? Yeah, we paid him, didn't we? He says we're going into a very wild country. Jungles and then high mountains. Tigers so big and strong they can climb a tree with a bird in the mouth. Tigers. Here? They're more like leopards, I guess. Well, I'm glad to hear such tall tales, gentlemen. That means mighty few outside has ever set foot up there. Well, let's get going then. Come on, kids, shake it up. Get them boroughs loaded. Hey, Curtain, take it easy, will you? This mountain climbing ain't like a walk around the block. Um, I'm dead. Oh, that's been a while. There is gold in these mountains. How long would it have been there? Millions and millions of years, wouldn't it? Well, hurry. A couple of days more or less ain't gonna matter. Look at that old man. Way ahead of us up there. You and me scared we'd have to pack him on our backs. Yeah. That was when I took him for an ordinary human being. He was part goat. You know, if I'd have known what prospecting meant, I'd have stayed in Tampico, waited for another job to turn up. Curtain. Curtain, look, look. These rocks, look. There's veins running through the rocks. Look at them glitter yellow, too, like gold. Gold? We've been sitting on a gold mine. Get the water bag. What's the matter, Curtain? Hold it, hold it. Come back, come back. We found something. We found something. Here, here's the water. There's the vein all over the rock. We struck it, Curtain. Look, look over there. It's in all the rocks just like he said it's a verandah. Hold it, look, look at the rocks. They're full of gold, veins of gold. Now, what you want to show me? I didn't pay you dinner for Carlos. Huh? That ain't gold? He's pyrite. Food's gold. Oh, of course. There's not plenty of the real stuff here about. We've walked over it four or five times already. You mean we've been passing it up? Why? Ain't enough of it. Not enough gold to pay us a good day's wages. Well, if we could sit here only. Come on, Curt, let's go. Next time you fill a strike at Ridge, holler for me first before he starts splashing the water around. Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold. My country inspired me. Didn't see a soul, just a beast of the jungle and birds. I felt good. Ten years younger. Better than neither of them. Warmed down to just plain grizzles. Come night, they'd just lay on the ground, puffering and groaning. Too dogged out to set up and eat the beans. I can't move. Oh, I just want to lie here. Oh, yeah. Ain't you going to have some beans? Going through some mighty rough country tomorrow? You better have some beans. Shut up, Pop. Go on, eat them. Just let us alone. That wind, it's blowing up more for cold. It's getting cold, is it? It's getting cold, yeah. It feels like a nether. When they blow hard, they set the desert country below us, right on its hind legs. You know, we're lucky to be where we are. Lucky, huh? Rick and there's only a couple of more days of this heavy stuff. Pretty soon we'll be leveling off. Yeah, pretty soon now. Come here. A couple of more days, you said. That was three nights ago. Yeah, we've really had enough. Listen to me, we just want to give up. Give up, huh? Yeah, leave the whole outfit right here. Vector civilization. What's that you say, go back? Go back. We'll kill my old grandmother. I got two very elegant bedfellows that kick at the first gust of wind and hide in the closet when the thunder rumbles. My, my, my, what great prospect. Lay off us, Howard. That's just what you are. Two shoe clerks read in the magazine about prospecting for gold in the land of the midnight sun. Shut your trap. Shut up, brother. Go ahead. Pick up that rock and throw it. If you did, you'd never leave this wilderness alive without me. And you two would die here miserable and unwrapped. Leave them alone, Dobbs. Can't you see the old man's nuts? Nuts? Nuts, am I? Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows. You're so dumb there's nothing to compare you with. You're dumber than the dumbest jackass. You're so dumb you don't even see the riches you're treading on with your own feet. Look at me. I'm dancing on it. Doing a dig on a man in the gold. What are you talking about? You mean this is it? There's gold here? What you expect to see nugget to molten gold? Sure it's here. It comes from someplace further up. Up there, see? That's where we gotta go up there. Only I'm going alone because my two courageous companions have agreed between themselves to desert, to desert and go back. Well, you are shit. I'll take one more day of it. What do you say, Kurt? Well, one more day won't kill us. Changed your mind, huh? Well, thank you, my two fine feathered friends. You move me to tears with your face and trust in me. One more day, huh? Well, then you can follow my trail because I'm going to be careful up there tonight. This is it, Howard? This stuff right here? Gold. It sure don't look like I thought it would. Well, that's just sand. That's just sand. It's just like plain sand. It don't glitter. I thought it would glitter. Oh, it'll glitter when it's refined, but that's another guy's job. You've got to know how to recognize it. You've got to know how to tickle it so she'll come out, too. Yeah, it's mighty rich this sand. This will pay good. How good? Oh, about 20 ounces to the ton. That's some $20 an ounce. How many tons can we handle in a week? It depends on how hard we work. Well, we better pitch camp down the mountain there a bit. Why do that when the gold is here? Well, in case anybody happens by bandits, soldiers chasing bandits or engines. In case that happens, we just tell them we're hunters, see? Hunters? Wouldn't it just be easier to file a claim? Yeah, easy maybe, but not so profitable. Wouldn't be no time till an emissary from one of them big mining companies would be right up here with a paper on his hand showing we had no right to be here. Well, how does it feel to be men of property? I'm sorry about the fuss we kicked up, Pop. I guess we were pretty dumb. Yeah. But we made it, huh? We're here. Men of property. What do you know? Everything's going to be all right from now on, huh? Sure it is. Why not? Why not, huh? Why not? We'll find out, won't we, Dobby? Yes, sir. We'll find out. In a moment, we'll continue with Act II of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Now for our Hollywood reporter, Francis Scully. Well, with all the talk going around about George Powell's new technicolor production conquest of space, I stopped over at Paramount to see it. I hear a lot of the action in it takes place on a space station way above the Earth. 1,100 miles above the Earth can. The men stationed there have been commissioned to build a spaceship for a flight to the moon. Then their orders are changed and they end up on Mars. Well, who's in the cast, Francis? Mostly newcomers, aren't they? Some mighty promising newcomers can. Walter Brooks, Eric Fleming, Phil Foster, Georgiana Johnson, and Joan Shawley. Well, George Powell's pictures are always great, and I'm sure conquest of space is no exception. Well, I'm sure everyone will be thrilled by the spectacular outer space scene. I certainly was. Say, Francis, I hope we have a luxe girl among those promising newcomers you spoke of. That we do can. Joan Shawley has a luxe complexion that would do the biggest star proud. She's a picture in technicolor. Ah, that's what I like to hear. And it's something for you and our audience to think about. Why does an ambitious young actress like Joan Shawley put her faith in luxe toilet soap? The answer is she's found out from other girls just as particular about complexion care as she is that there's no other beauty soap quite like luxe. Remember, 9 out of 10 Hollywood stars use luxe, and that's reason enough for any woman to do the same. So make the stars' favorite soap your soap, too. You can because you don't have to be a movie star to have a movie star complexion. That's the beauty of luxe. It can give you and you and you fresher, lovelier skin and Lever Brothers unconditionally guarantees it. Now our producer, Mr. Cummings. Act two of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Edmund O'Brien as Dobbs and Walter Brennan as Howard. For a month, I guess we didn't mind a grain of ore. There were things to do first such as setting up camp, crowd for the burrows and the sluiceways off in the creek to wash them out the gold. Finally the time come when we weighed up our first take of the treasure. How much, Howard? How much bigger we got there? Oh, I'd say about $5,000 worth of rick'n. Yeah, not bad. When do we start dividing it up? Well, why divide it now when the time comes we're all going back together, aren't we? I'm for dividing as we go along. Make each guy responsible for his own good. Well, I'd just soon have it that way, myself. You haven't liked the responsibility of guarding your treasure any too well? Why is it so, pal? That's right. You never did ask me. Only I thought I was the most trustworthy of three. You? I said the most trustworthy. As far as being the most honest, well, no one can say. I don't get it. All right. Suppose you were charged with taking care of the goods. One day I'm deep in the brush and let's say Curt and he is on his way to the village to get provisions. It's a big chance to pack up and leave us in the cold, wouldn't it? Well, only a guy that's a thief at heart would think me likely to pull a stunt like that. Well, right now it wouldn't be worth your while, of course, but when the pile's grown, well, think of such things as well. Yeah. How about yourself? I'm not quick enough to eat any longer. You fellas are a lot tougher when you started out, too. Well, you'd have me strung up in no time. That's why I think I'm the most trustworthy. Well, looking at it that way, I guess you're right, but, no, let's do like Dobb says, divide the proceeds every night. Well, that's well by me, gentlemen, and in each of us you'll hide, he'll share the treasure from the other two, huh? Well, why not? And having done so, he'll have to be forever on the watch that his hiding place is not discovered. What a dirty, filthy mind you've got. No, no, no, not dirty, not dirty, baby. Only I know what kind of ideas even supposedly decent people get when goals at stake. All right, Curtin, hand me them weighing scales. You know, here she goes, boys, three ways. Venison stew, that sure tastes good, Bob. Where's Dobb? Oh, he ate before. Alone? Yeah. Hey, can you tell me something, Bob? What's going to do with all your hard-earned money? Uh, I reckon I'll settle down some quiet place, get me a little business, hardware, grocery store, spend a better part of my time reading comic strips and adventure stories. One thing for sure, I'm not going to go prospecting no more. What's all that about? Well, just John Dobbsy telling each other what we'll do when we get back. Me, I got it all figured. First of all, I'm going to get a brand-new set of duds, a dozen of everything. I'm going to a swell café and order everything on the bill of fare. And if it ain't just right, and even if it is, I'm going to ball out the manager and make him take it all back. What's next on the program? Well, what would be? You know what? We ought to put some kind of a limit on a take here. What kind of limit? Oh, see, $25,000 each man. $25,000? Small potatoes. Anyway, $75,000 would be more like it. I'm young, I need dough and plenty of it. Well, no use making hogs of ourselves. Hog, am I? Maybe you don't know it, but I'd be within my rights if I demanded half again as much as you get. I'll come. I put up the lion's share of the cash, didn't I? Oh, you did, Dobbsy. Well, I always meant to pay you back. In any civilized place, the biggest investigator gets the biggest return, don't he? There's one thing in favor of the wild. I always demanded it, but I'd be within my rights if I did. The next time you go calling me a hard, just remember what I could have done if I wanted to. Funny, ain't it, Pop? Yeah, real funny. I'm not that dumb. Say them guys try to put anything over on me. It'll be a costly one for both of them. You know what's good for you? There's no monkey around with Fred C. Dobbs. What'd you say, Dobbs? Huh? Uh, nothing. Then look out, the bad sign when the fella starts talking to himself. Yeah? Well, who else am I going to talk to? Certainly not to you or Curtin. I don't get the idea you two are putting over anything on me. I know what your game is. Well, you know more than I do. Why am I elected to go to the village tomorrow? Time I'd be gone to give you plenty of chance to discover where I hid my goods, wouldn't it? Well, now, you got any fear along them lines? Why don't you take your goods with you? And run the risk of having them taken from me by bandits? They kid anyway, Dobbs. He gets for the sport of it. Oh, so that's it. You're hoping bandits will get me. That'd save you two a lot of trouble, wouldn't it? All right, Dobbs. Forget about it. I ain't going to the village, see? And you can go back and tell that to Curtin. Okay, pardon me. I'll tell him. So Curtin went down to the village with provisions. He was all stood up, coming back. There were soldiers in the village chasing bandits. And that wasn't all either. He met up with an American. And he kept bumping me, followed me right into that store, wanted to know what I was doing here. Well, I said that I was a hunter. I said I was a professional hunter. You're asking me, did I see anything up here that looked like gold? You shook him off, Curtin. You got rid of him, huh? I couldn't. No, he followed me. Are you sure he tried? Yes, I'm sure. What makes you so positive? Because every time... Because if you turn around, you can see for yourself, there he is. Hello? All right, you. Walk over here to the fire. I guess I'm not wanted, huh? Well, I just couldn't resist the chance to sit around and jaw with an American. Don't make any mistake, mister, we got no use for you. We're full up. No vacancies. The back where you came from, take our blessing with you. Thanks. If you're hungry, mister, go on, help yourself. Yeah, go ahead. Tonight you're our guest, see. But tomorrow morning, look out. No trespassing, but where are the dogs? Get it? I, uh... Here's why you were gone, curtain, five foxes and a tiger. Hmm? Oh, how are the skin? Oh, pretty good. Excuse me for buttoning them, but there's no wild game around here worth going after. Yeah, you're right, mister. That's why we've made up our minds to clear out. Yeah, that might be a pretty good ground for something else. I told you in the village there's no gold around here. Look, my boy, if there'd been one single ounce of it, how'd it smell that, believe me? Oh, you're not as smart as you appear to be. Gold, huh? You know, that gives me an idea. Guess I'll sleep on it, gentlemen. Yeah, uh, me too. I'll see you in the morning, Cody. Sorry, there's no room in our tent. If you want it, you can roll up here by the fire. Ah, that's fine. Thanks. Thanks a lot. I can't figure him out. Is he wise to us or not? No, look, you two guys go to sleep. I'll be a watchdog for a couple hours. Then you and Dobbs can take your tunes. You got a gun handy? Right here. Okay. I didn't got much sleep last night. Did you, friends? That's the fact. We didn't. Now, look, uh, why don't we lay our cards on the table right now, huh? Now, you found gold here. I know that. And because I know it, you're gonna have to do one of three things. Look, who's telling us what we gotta do? One of three things. Kill me? Run me off or, uh, take me in as the partner. Partner? Why, well... Now, let's consider the first. If you start killing people, just how far are you prepared to go with it, huh? Another guy may come along tomorrow. Well, ain't much we stop at, Mr., to protect their interests. Well, I only say that killing me isn't the answer. Now, it's for choice number two. You run me off. And, uh, I might very well inform on you. 25% of your gold is the reward I get. Well, that's a pretty strong argument in favor of killing you. I don't deny that. But you take me in as a partner. And you don't lose anything. I'm not asking for a share of what you've made so far, only in the profits to come. Uh, why don't you think it over, huh? I'll be looking after my borough. Well, Howard, you're sending them a raise out of the question. Howard, these jobs ain't a guy like being taken advantage of. They've got no real choice at all. Bump them off. Yeah, but what do we gain by killing them? I don't mind being taken some advantage of, as long as there's ain't money out of my pocket. And whoever else happens along, they ought to be invited in, too. Come one, come on. You'd appoint their doves. No question about it. But to kill a man, why do you... What's the matter? Ain't you up to it? Sure, I'm up to it. What's the majority decide? What do you say, Curtin, four or again? Well, four or again. Four? Okay. We'll make it short and sweet for him. Man, right where you are, Cody. You're gonna shoot me, huh? Yeah. You convinced us. Before you start shooting, you better take a look down there in the valley. There's some men coming on horses. So that's just thinking games. I knew you as an informer. I knew it all the time. You're wrong, brother. This means all our funerals. They're bandits, gentlemen, about a dozen of them. Nobody at the village must have told them about the American hunter up here. Well, we better start thinking about a way to defend ourselves. We could try hiding in the rocks, but then we'd lose our burrows and the whole outfit. The best thing for us to do, I'd say, is to make a fight of it. Well, is it you three against them or us four? Well, for now, I guess it's us four. Yeah, we'll settle your case later. If you're alive. If you've got something there, Darcy, that's right. If we're alive. Bandits turn out to be gold hat and his boys. Same crowd that held up the train on our way to Perla. They spotted us all right. Started pouring on us, too. Then all at once they turned and took off. Didn't make sense. Then we saw why. Far down the mountain, hot on their trail was maybe 50 soldiers. Federals, we just stood there watching them shoot it out. Half a mile below us. Hey, look at them, Federals. Stick them tight, chew them up and swallow them. Better stay covered, Darcy. If them soldiers start spreading out, we may have company after all. Yeah, yeah, get down, Triton. Hey, come here, you guys. If a bandit settled our problem, told his dad. I didn't mean he's dead. Take a look. Pull it. I throw his neck. I don't know who he was. Maybe we'd better go through his pockets, huh? Maybe he's got folks somewhere. Here's his wallet, Pop. James, Cody. Dallas, Texas. And a picture. A girl and a little kid. I guess she's his wife, huh? Not there. Well, I guess we'd better take a hold for him. Funny how it all worked out. We didn't have to shoot him after all. Gentlemen, would you ask me, I'd say it's time we considered leaving this mountain. How much gold do you figure we got? Oh, I'll put you 35,000 apiece, and I'll tell you we ought to be plenty thankful. All right, let's call it quits then. Sooner or better. You take another week to put the mountain back into shape. The what to the mountain? We wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close the wounds. At least we can do for all the well she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, then I'll do it myself. You know, you talk about a mountain like it was a real woman. You've been a lot better to me than any woman I ever know. Keep your shirt on, old timer. Sure, I'll help you. Six days later, we loaded the gold on the burrs and little canvas bags and started down. Late that afternoon, pushing through the brush, we walked straight into a bunch of engines. They were peaceful and friendly. They wanted help. What do you mean, help? What kind of help? They've been heading for Durango. Seems some little boy in their village fell into the river. They fished him out, but he won't come too. He ain't dead, they say he just won't come too. Well, that's tough. They want me to go back to their village with him. It ain't very fair. Maybe I can do something. Why? Well, were I to refuse him, they'd make me go. I'll be back soon. Four more and probably. And if you're not? Maybe. Look after my goods like it back. It's okay, Bob. We'll wait for you here. Look, it's no use agifying. I'm sorry, gentlemen. I gotta go back again to the village. But you just said you fixed the kid. Fixing the kid was simple. Artificial respiration, a few boy scout tricks. They say I gotta visit with them now. Their guards will be angry if they don't show their gratitude to me. Tell them to forget it. They don't know it's a thing. I'll handle it. Wait a minute, wait a minute. We've got your gun. We'll be scouting in half an hour. El Senor. El Senor, no important. No doctor will see important. What's he saying now? He says it don't make any difference about you guys, but I gotta go back with him. Oh, it's like that, huh? They just want you. Yeah, it looks like it. Well, go on then. We'll meet in Durango. Well, what about my goods? Just take them with you. If they found out, they might forget he was their honored guest and pop them off, huh, Pop? What'll I do? Jump it here on the ground? No, we'll take them with us if you want us to. Well, they... Any better ideas, Pop? Hmm. I reckon that's about the only solution. I bet you you'll remember this the next time you try to do a good deed. Don't worry, Pop. Good luck to you. Yeah, and look out for those Indian Danes. One of them scores might marry you. Maybe you might do that. Pick me out a good-looking score and marry it. You know, easy to dress, feed, and entertain? Well, I'm so long, partners, seeing Durango. And so I left him and went back with the Indians. No choice. I had to go. And behind me in keeping them curtain and gobs was my share of the treasure. $35,000. I'm stopping here for the night. You hear me, curtain? I'm stopping here. But early yet, we could make four or five miles more than four darts. Go on, then, but take his borrows with you. They ain't my responsibility. See, and Twan? They give us nothing but trouble for two days, trying off trails, smashing their packs against the rocks. He knew what he was doing when he turned them over to us. So, uh, you're staying here for the night, huh? Well, if you can't go any further, who says I can't? Don't make me laugh. I can go four times as far as a mug like you, but I don't want to. I could if I want to, but I don't want to. See, Mugs? What's the use of hollering, Dobby? Okay, you will camp here. I'm sorry to suppose the railroad is over here. Uh, it's hard to say. I reached the high pass in two days more and get fresh watered. After that, I don't know. Hey, what's the joke, Dobby? I was just thinking, what a phone had played that old jackass mate when he put all his goods in our keeping. He figured he'd let us do his sweating for him, did he? Well, we'll show him. Show him what? Can't you see it's all ours now? We don't go back to Durango at all. Steel is good? Yeah, we take his goods and go north, leave the old jackass flat. Oh, now, look, you don't... you don't really mean that. Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothing he don't mean. As long as I can do anything about it, you won't take a single grain to that old man's good. Oh, you want to take it all for yourself and cut me out? You are out of your head. I'm on the level with the old man. Oh, sure, sure. For a long time, I've had my suspicions about you and now I know I've been right. What suspicions? You're going to bump me off, bury me out here in the bush like a dog. You are crazy, Dobbs. I don't only have the old man's goods, but mine in a bargain. You'll have yourself a big laugh, won't you? Thinking how dumb the old man and I were. Put your hands up, Curtain. Dobbs. Was I right or was I right? Go on. Stand up. Get on your feet and take it like a man. Trying to put one over on Fred's feet. Pull a gun on me, huh? Pull a gun on me only now I've got the gun. Now you listen to me. Go on, pull it. Dobbs, do you look? You're all wrong. I never intended to rob you. If you really mean that, then give me back my gun. Look, wouldn't it be better the way things are to split up? I mean, right now tonight. Oh, that would suit you fine, wouldn't it? So you could fall on me from behind, shoot me in the back. All right then, I'll go first. And wait for me on the trail, huh? Ambush me. If I meant to kill you, why wouldn't I do it right here? Because you're yelling. You haven't got nerve to pull a trigger when I'm looking. Just straighten me out. And you really believe that, don't you? Jokes. Full of jokes. All right, we won't separate. We'll just go on together. And every day you'll take the trail right ahead of me, and every night I'm gonna tie you up. Oh, I'll tell you what, Curtin. I'll make you a little bet. Three times 35 is 105. I'll bet you $105,000 you go to sleep before I do. How long can you go without sleeping, Curtin? Two days? Three? Four? Whatever it is, I can go longer, see? And the day you fall down on the trail, at the day Fred C. Dobbs wins, is bet $105,000. Just like I said, Curtin, couldn't take it, could you? Tell us sleep, didn't you? Who wins the bet? Who wins the bet? The old man, catch up with you. I got an answer for that one, too. I'll tell him you tied me to a tree, that you stole all the goods. Yours, mine, and his. So he'll be looking for you, Curtin, not for me. What a fat chance he's got to find in you. So long, partner. Come and act free of the treasure of the Sierra Madre. Say, ladies, wouldn't you like to see your white clothes come out whiter and whiter every time you wash them? Of course you would. 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The curtain rises on Act 3 of the Treasure of Sierra Madre starring Edmund O'Brien as Dobbs and Walter Brennan as Howard. Yeah, I'd left Dobbs and Curtin on the trail with all my goods and gone to the village of the Indians. They couldn't do enough of me. Food, drink, and pretty little girls to brush the flies off of me. Yes, sir, old man Howard was a regular mogul. And then some of their hunters came in from the brush. They were carrying a man. It was Clifford with two bullet holes in him. Dobbs did it, Howard. Dobbs did it. He wasn't made off with that good, huh? How could he be such a bad shot? He left me there. I thought I was dead. Take it easy, son. You're talking too much. If you worry about me, I'll pull out of this if you want me to get that guy. Well, I reckon we can't blame Dodge too much. What do you mean? Dobbs ain't a real killer as killers go. The big mistake was leaving you two fellas alone out there in the wilderness. It was a mighty big temptation, partner. Believe me. Dobbs shot me down in cold blood. He shot me a second time just to make sure. Yeah, man, goes crazy with that much wealth in his reach. Maybe if I'd have been young, been out there with either one of you, I might have been tempted too. Well, Curtin, nothing to do but sit out after him. Yeah. Well, a couple of days now, I'll be okay. Yeah, but not to chase him down a mountainside. Well, the Indians there, they could loan the sources. That's why I figure I'll catch Dobbs. He'll go as fast as as far as a man can, but he's alone. With all them burrows and on foot. I'm going with you. Give me 10 days. Two weeks. I'll come back for you. I'm going with you. Look at you. You're weak as a newborn kitten. I'm still going. Yeah, everything you're going. Some of the Indians came with us. As we rode north, I tried to figure out what I'd do with I in Dobbs' boots. I know what I'd do. I'd try to make time. I'd sacrifice anything for time, sleep, ration, even water. What's your name, sir? El Tercero con la marca de la letra A. Aard? What they find? Another dead bird. Dobbs is really pushing him. That's the third bird he's killed off. I don't like this wind. That's blowing like this cover up his trail. Yeah, it might blow like this for days. We're not going to stop, are we? Dobbs won't stop. Yeah, we'll keep going. He'll be running out of water soon. We were going to fill up at the high pass. Yeah, only he went north. My friends here say the water's mighty scarce in the north. They say something else too, Curtin. Yeah. Gold had, and a couple of his pals escaped the Federals. They're on foot. They passed here just about a day before Dobbs. There he is, amigo, six as a model. One man and six burros trying to squeeze water out of the model. Six burros, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes. I think the three of us have a little fun, eh? Nourish. Come on, we say hello to our friends. Water. Water. I made it. And I made it. Now the town can't be far off now. There's a road over there. One more day. Hola, amigo. What do you want? We're three poor men in rags in your cigarette. You have cigarettes, maybe? No. No, I haven't. I got a little tobacco. That'll do. Oh, he's got a little tobacco. No paper to roll it in? Paper? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's right. I got to sell my burros. I got to get the money. Matches. For cigarettes. Yeah. The honey shakes, amigo. You're sick, maybe? Sick. No, no. I ran out of water. All right, now. I could use a good burro driver, maybe two or three. Burro drivers, eh? Well, hey, when we get to town, I'm a hunter. You see all those hides? Hey, did I know your farm from place? Maybe I know you, huh? No, no, I don't think so. You're all alone, this poor lonely man. Oh, no, no, I'm not alone. I got a couple of friends coming along with me. They ought to be here any minute. Let me look at your face. Sure, I know I see you before. Up in the mountains, the guy in the rocks before the federal states are... You're crazy. I've never seen you till now. You don't remember me? Me with the yellow sombrero, the gold hat? I think you tell a lie. No, no, I'm not lying. Listen. Oh, yeah. Got a load of hides on the burros, huh? Yeah, like I said, I'm a hunter. Oh, to bring a lot of money, huh? All these hides. Get away from them. Get away from them hides. Look, I'm telling you, burros, too. Hey, what's this? These little cloth bags filled with something. Give me the knife. I think I look in the little bag. You touch those bags, I'll kill you. Okay, is some kind of a joke? Nothing in his back. Hold his hand, sir. All the little bags got on his back. Yeah, clear out before I... You can't flatten you in the clouds with that. You're gonna make sure the one of us before the other two jump on you. And that one won't mind too much because it has a lot of the rafters in anyway. Then back there. Stand out! With the rock, I hit him with the rock. He's huge! I'm getting huge! Finish him off. Finish him off. Are you feeling good? I'm all right. It'll be the town over the hill there, further. We're almost there. Yeah, but will Dobbs be there? Yes, sir. That's the question, all right? Shooting. Yeah, kind of like a body. The town seemed to come from town. He's not lost, Federale. Take one some panditos. Yes, Federale. Execution, probably. We'll know pretty soon now. Looks like we guessed it right, Curtin. Execution. Three bandits. Storekeeper here says one of them was gold hat. You finally got him. He has to know it's the other thing, all right? He says that's not all, either. Look, we better keep after Dobbs now. He's dead, Curtin. Dobbs is dead. Dead? Yeah, those bandits. But our goods, what did he say about our goods? Come to this and the rest of the courses. He says he's got everything in the back of the store. Not here. How are the golds gone? Everything else is here, but the gold. He's got shit on, señor. ¿Qué pasa, señor? ¿Sabes algo sobre unos castellitos muy pesados? No, señor. No. De esto, no sé nada. Well... Huh? He says everything the bandits have. Señor, you asked my father about some little canvas bags. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Where are they? I heard the banditos talking in the cave, señor. They said the señor whom they killed had canvas bags with sand in them. Many, many bags on the bottles. Where are they? Where'd they kill the Americans? At the water hole, but the ruined wall, outside the town. Can you check us there? This is, señor, right away. It's another one, Howard. It's empty. He's fighting. It's empty. These bags are all empty. They cut open and empty. Hey, keep looking! Keep looking there! All right, they're empty. In another couple of hours in this wind, we wouldn't even find the bags. Whipped away and buried under the dust of the earth. But what happened here? Bandits. They're miserable, stupid, ignorant bandits. Stole Dom's shoes, took the shirt off and his back and throw away $105,000 worth of jewelry. Oh, it must be here on the ground somewhere. In this wind? It's a big joke curtain, old boy. Laugh! The great joke played on us by the lord of fate and nature or whatever you prefer. But whoever or whatever played it certainly had a sense of humor. The gold is gold, we found it. That and the gold is gold. The Indians really, they're laughing too. They don't know what they're laughing at. Our own private joke curtain, old boy. Next year, I wonder. As far as I'm concerned, I'm fixed. I'll go back to the Indians. Yeah. Be a medicine man. Three meals a day, a roof over my head and a drink every now and then to warm me up. I'll be worshiped and fed and treated like a high priest who's telling people things they want to hear. Good medicine men are born, not made. Yeah. Come and see me sometime, old boy. Yeah, I'll be fixed for the rest of my natural life. How about yourself? What do you aim to be doing? Oh, I haven't got any idea. Oh, you're young, yet you've got plenty of time to make three, four fortunes for yourself. You know, I'm really no worse off than I was back in Tampico. I'm out a couple hundred bucks when you come right down to it. Not very much compared to what Dobby lost. Any special place you've been on going? No, all places are the same to me. Oh, say, look, I'll tell you what. You can keep my share of what the birds and the hides will bring if you use the money to buy a ticket to Dallas. See, Cody's with it. You know, it's better than writing. Just tell her what happened. Okay, plop, plop, go to Dallas. Hey, you son, come here. Is he tenor? Tell your father to give this man all the hides and the burrows, and I'm going off with the Indians. Is he tenor? Well, I guess I'll rind up my heathen brethren and we'll be on our way. Goodbye, Kutten. Goodbye, Howard. Good luck. Lame to you. Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening.