Storyline

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Plot Keywords

mexico, birdcage, blood, brandy, burial, cactus, campfire, camping, cantina, cave in, chase, coffee, bet, train, traitor, treachery, ammunition, ant, arm sling, badge

Short Review

John Huston has rarely been in better form than in this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsessions among an unlikely trio of prospectors...

Trailer

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