<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $4,307,000 (rentals) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American dramatic adventurous neo-western written and directed by John Huston . It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), who in the 1920s join old - timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold . </P> <P> The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed on location outside the United States (in the state of Durango and street scenes in Tampico, Mexico), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the US . The film is quite faithful to the source novel . In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </P> <P> In 1925 in the Mexican oil - town of Tampico, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), two Americans cheated out of promised wages and down on their luck, meet old prospector Howard (Walter Huston). When Dobbs and Curtin retrieve their promised wages, and Dobbs wins a small jackpot in the lottery, they have the bankroll to finance a gold prospecting journey to the remote Sierra Madre mountains . </P>

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