European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In a hut in the mountains of Mexico Howard Walter Huston tends a Rtin Tim Holt who . While Gold prospecting the Tare of Sierra Hollywood fashions a first class film out of an adventurous Story treasure of Sierra Madre is one of Hollywood s outstanding efforts t the kind of movie which the indefatigable movie goer occasionally gets As a Reward for wading through the Assembly line accomplishments about which producers boast. Starring Walter Huston Humphrey Bogart and Tim x Holt this Warner Brothers opus presents the three in some of their finest performances. Nor is the Story to be sniffed at for though it is an essentially simple plot it has an astonishing honesty strength and realism. Taken from a Book by. The mysterious b. Traven a writer about whom a talc is known though he has  in Art to Jack London the Saga unrolls in the depth of Mexico s mountains. It carries a shiftless bum Bogart and an Only slightly less shift ass adventurer Holt in search of Gold in the company of a Wise old Stakor Howard Huston. The two Young men when they Start out think of Little but their thirst for Gold and ignore the warnings of old Howard who tells them in effect be careful Gold has ruined Many a Man s. Character. His prophecy works itself out in an atmosphere of danger brutality and sinister distrust As the three men find Gold and grow to fear and hate each other. Huston s son John is the producer and script writer of this movie. He worked on the script with a Man who called himself the author s trans Lator but Huston suspects the Man Vas Traven himself. .  Dobbs Humphrey Bogart and Curtin a couple of bums meet in me Ico of 1920. Wayside pickings Are lean in Tampico so they take with Mccormick Barton Mac Lane big rime Boss in construction Ca weekend May i