The Golden Age of Hollywood

The Golden Age of Hollywood
"Garbo, Bogart, Bacall, Gable, K. Hepburn, Astaire, Rogers, Brando, The Marx Brothers, Crawford, Wayne, Stewart, Keaton, Colbert, Gene Kelly, Lancaster, Garland, Peck, Taylor, Douglas, Davis, A. Hepburn, Harlow, Hitchcock, Ford, Hawks, Grace Kelly, Olivier, Dietrich, Cagney, Gardner, Grant, Bergman, Fonda, Monroe, Dean, Welles, West, Holden, Loren, Leigh, Cooper and Fontaine, Tracy, Stanwyck, Gish, Power, Temple, Heston, Hayworth, Pickford"

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Movie Review #2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

     The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Running Time: 126 minutes
Production Co.: Warner Bros. Pictures
Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture
Academy Award Wins: Best Supporting Actor-Walter Huston, Best Director-John Huston, Writing Adapted Screenplay

Based on a book, the story is about three fortune hunters searching for gold in Mexico. Fred C. Dobbs (Bogart) and Curtin (Holt) meet a prospector (Huston) and they team up to find gold. But as they find gold, each one's greed could destroy the entire mission. This movie deals with the subject of greed-how powerful and corruptive it is.   

The acting amazes. Bogart was so good as the greedy bastard Fred Dobbs, that i wanted to hit him but was in awe at Bogie's acting prowess. The fact that Bogart didn't even get nominated amazes me. I think this was his best performance that he ever did (YES-even better than Casablanca!). Walter Huston is great. He definantly deserved his oscar. Walter Huston and John Huston became the first father-son team to win oscars, and in the same movie.

I highly recommend this movie. I know it's cliched but, "they don't make them like this anymore" and it is so true.
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