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Movie ID: 1176
RT slug: treasure_of_the_sierra_madre
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/treasure_of_the_sierra_madre
Release year: 1948
Runtime: 120 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2015-05-08
Tomatometer final: 100%
Audience score final: 93%
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Directors: John Huston
Writers: B. Traven, John Huston
Producers: Henry Blanke
MPAA rating: —
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-15 12:42:44
Updated: 2026-08-15 12:42:44
In this classic adventure film, two rough-and-tumble wanderers, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), meet up with a veteran prospector, Howard (Walter Huston), in Mexico and head into the Sierra Madre mountains to find gold. Although they discover treasure, they also find plenty of trouble, not only from ruthless bandits lurking in the dangerous Mexican wilderness but from their own insecurities and greed, which threaten to bring conflict at any moment.
Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest.
Canonical reviews: 54
Canonical fresh: 54
Canonical rotten: 0
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 100%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-15 11:28:00
Snapshot Tomatometer: 100%
Snapshot review count: 54
Snapshot fresh count: 54
Snapshot rotten count: 0
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2810 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
|---|---|
| MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc. | distributor |
| Warner Bros. Pictures | distributor |
| Warner Brothers | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humphrey Bogart | Fred C. Dobbs |
| 2 | Walter Huston | Howard |
| 3 | Tim Holt | Bob Curtin |
| 4 | Bruce Bennett | James Cody |
| 5 | Barton MacLane | Pat McCormick |
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| 2810 | 2026-08-15 06:28:00 (America/Panama) | 2026-08-15 11:28:00 | 100% | 54 | processed | Mode=full_snapshot. Processed 54 row(s); 0 row error(s). Parsed unique reviews in this batch=54, fresh=54, rotten=0, tomatometer=100%. Net new reviews added=54, fresh=54, rotten=0. Current canonical totals=54 reviews, 54 fresh, 0 rotten, tomatometer=100% (100.000%). Entered review count matched parsed batch count (54). Entered tomatometer matched parsed batch value (100%). |
| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 244521 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Fresh | 4/4 | 2025-12-02T07:13:18.000Z | 2025-12-02 07:13:18 | My pick for the greatest Western of all time? That entirely depends on whether one places The Treasure of the Sierra Madre in the genre. |
| 244522 | Kate Cameron | New York Daily News | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-01-12T00:10:44.000Z | 2023-01-12 00:10:44 | In Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Huston has turned out the best picture that has come from Warner Brothers' studios since the war. |
| 244523 | Edwin Schallert | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2023-01-12T00:03:36.000Z | 2023-01-12 00:03:36 | That gold changes the character of men who are fortunate enough to find it is the central thesis of this curiously powerful production. |
| 244524 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-02-14T03:50:10.000Z | 2022-02-14 03:50:10 | Unlike most studio releases of the era, the film's depiction of wretched moral depravity is not sweetened by a studio ending, where, say, the ugly impulses of greed are suppressed by a higher moral calling. |
| 244525 | Matt Neal | ABC Radio (Australia) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-07-30T02:21:11.000Z | 2021-07-30 02:21:11 | Wildly unconventional for its time, it makes its A-list star a villain, there's no romantic subplot, and it's far grimmer than most movies of the age. |
| 244526 | Sarah Brinks | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2021-04-01T00:40:49.000Z | 2021-04-01 00:40:49 | The film is about the power of human greed. From the moment Dobbs sees that first seam of pyrite, he is obsessed... |
| 244527 | Red Kann | Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) | Fresh | — | 2020-11-18T00:31:39.000Z | 2020-11-18 00:31:39 | This attraction, produced by Henry Blanke, is never pretty, but it has guts and substance. And also Bogart. |
| 244528 | Mike Massie | Gone With The Twins | Fresh | 10/10 | 2020-08-15T06:12:03.000Z | 2020-08-15 06:12:03 | Aside from a dark lesson in moral corruption, the film serves as a monumental achievement in storytelling and balanced entertainment. |
| 244529 | Chris Plante | Polygon | Fresh | — | 2020-08-04T19:32:35.000Z | 2020-08-04 19:32:35 | What an incredible film. |
| 244530 | Ángel Fernández-Santos | El Pais (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2020-06-25T19:12:30.000Z | 2020-06-25 19:12:30 | It's a passionate minor movie where the image is the simple support of a powerful story. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 244531 | Rachel Wagner | rachelsreviews.net | Fresh | A+ | 2019-04-16T23:55:30.000Z | 2019-04-16 23:55:30 | John Huston directed and wrote a true masterpiece. |
| 244532 | Virginia Graham | The Spectator | Fresh | — | 2018-06-13T01:04:18.000Z | 2018-06-13 01:04:18 | Treasure of Sierra Madre is a film which successfully restores one's flagging faith in the cinema industry. |
| 244533 | Barbara Shulgasser | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2016-11-01T14:32:13.000Z | 2016-11-01 14:32:13 | Classic '40s tale of greed, betrayal, and murder. |
| 244534 | Kevin Carr | 7M Pictures | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-01-18T12:18:56.000Z | 2014-01-18 12:18:56 | an unconventional western and a serious drama |
| 244535 | James Agee | The Nation | Fresh | — | 2012-08-30T10:20:10.000Z | 2012-08-30 10:20:10 | This is one of the most visually alive and beautiful movies I have ever seen; there is a wonderful flow of fresh air, light, vigor, and liberty through every shot. |
| 244536 | Wesley Lovell | Cinema Sight | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2011-06-09T11:39:27.000Z | 2011-06-09 11:39:27 | A finely-crafted western-style character drama where greed and paranoia drive desperate men over the edge. |
| 244537 | Rob Humanick | Slant Magazine | Fresh | 4/4 | 2011-04-20T02:45:42.000Z | 2011-04-20 02:45:42 | Transcends the medium to become a mandatory viewing experience for anyone that identifies themselves as a human being, period. |
| 244538 | Emanuel Levy | EmanuelLevy.Com | Fresh | A- | 2011-03-26T12:13:17.000Z | 2011-03-26 12:13:17 | Humphrey Bogart gives one of his best performances in John Huston's chronicle of greed and crime, for which Walter Huston (John's son) won the Supporting Oscar; years later Jonn's daughter won the Oscar. |
| 244539 | Jay Antani | Cinema Writer | Fresh | 4/4 | 2011-02-15T21:26:37.000Z | 2011-02-15 21:26:37 | an all-time masterpiece of characterization, structure, pacing and storytelling in general |
| 244540 | Dan Jardine | Cinemania | Fresh | 90/100 | 2010-07-22T07:55:27.000Z | 2010-07-22 07:55:27 | Humphrey Bogart's maniacal Fred Dobbs is one of moviedom's great characterizations, a conglomeration of cunning, greed and paranoia. |
| 244541 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | Fresh | — | 2009-05-29T03:15:23.000Z | 2009-05-29 03:15:23 | Huston must have thrown everything he had into this impossibly rich film, packed with grit, passion, adventure and heartbreak. |
| 244542 | Unknown Critic | Film4 | Fresh | — | 2009-04-20T16:58:21.000Z | 2009-04-20 16:58:21 | A powerful morality tale whose humour is as black as the heart of its central character, but as humane as the men who survive their brush with greed. |
| 244543 | David Parkinson | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 5/5 | 2009-04-20T16:55:16.000Z | 2009-04-20 16:55:16 | This is so brilliant that the only real effect of the other versions is to make you want to watch the original again. |
| 244544 | Cole Smithey | ColeSmithey.com | Fresh | 5/5 | 2007-10-13T18:12:14.000Z | 2007-10-13 18:12:14 | A pure classic. |
| 244545 | Don Druker | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2007-07-02T15:16:39.000Z | 2007-07-02 15:16:39 | 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... |
| 244546 | Steve Crum | Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers | Fresh | 5/5 | 2006-08-31T20:37:30.000Z | 2006-08-31 20:37:30 | True treasure of cinema, terrific on all counts. |
| 244547 | Stephen Garrett | Time Out | Fresh | — | 2006-02-09T03:16:28.000Z | 2006-02-09 03:16:28 | There's a quite enjoyable yarn buried under the hollow laughter. |
| 244548 | Chuck O'Leary | Fantastica Daily | Fresh | 4/5 | 2005-10-09T10:38:42.000Z | 2005-10-09 10:38:42 | — |
| 244549 | Susan Granger | www.susangranger.com | Fresh | 5/5 | 2005-04-06T08:48:48.000Z | 2005-04-06 08:48:48 | — |
| 244550 | Ken Hanke | Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2004-07-08T00:41:18.000Z | 2004-07-08 00:41:18 | An undeniable classic, but far from perfect. |
| 244551 | Jake Euker | F5 (Wichita, KS) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2004-07-02T07:53:57.000Z | 2004-07-02 07:53:57 | — |
| 244552 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Fresh | 5/5 | 2004-06-24T20:03:26.000Z | 2004-06-24 20:03:26 | — |
| 244553 | Nicolas Lacroix | EnPrimeur.ca | Fresh | 4/5 | 2004-06-18T10:24:30.000Z | 2004-06-18 10:24:30 | — |
| 244554 | Steven D. Greydanus | Decent Films | Fresh | A+ | 2004-06-14T07:58:05.000Z | 2004-06-14 07:58:05 | Riveting, downbeat, and surprising, a gripping adventure and one of Hollywood's most resonant morality tales a smart, remorseless story of gold, greed, guns, and guile. |
| 244555 | Mark Palermo | The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2004-05-01T13:07:52.000Z | 2004-05-01 13:07:52 | — |
| 244556 | Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 4/4 | 2004-01-15T17:08:59.000Z | 2004-01-15 17:08:59 | The movie has never really been about gold but about character, and Bogart fearlessly makes Fred C. Dobbs into a pathetic, frightened, selfish man -- so sick we would be tempted to pity him, if he were not so undeserving of pity. |
| 244557 | Mark Robison | Reno Gazette-Journal | Fresh | A | 2004-01-05T18:43:28.000Z | 2004-01-05 18:43:28 | The movie is a classic. |
| 244558 | John A. Nesbit | Old School Reviews | Fresh | A | 2003-11-30T08:07:46.000Z | 2003-11-30 08:07:46 | Much of the film's strength comes from director John Huston's pen and attention to detail. |
| 244559 | Walter Chaw | Film Freak Central | Fresh | 4/4 | 2003-10-16T21:13:43.000Z | 2003-10-16 21:13:43 | ... so good that writing about it is embarrassing. |
| 244560 | Christopher Null | Filmcritic.com | Fresh | 5/5 | 2003-09-30T17:08:30.000Z | 2003-09-30 17:08:30 | Sierra Madre is one of the most lush black & white films ever shot. You'll never look at a gila monster the same way after seeing it slither across the sand in this film. |
| 244561 | John J. Puccio | Movie Metropolis | Fresh | 9/10 | 2003-09-29T16:45:22.000Z | 2003-09-29 16:45:22 | ...one treasure of a movie. |
| 244562 | Nell Minow | Movie Mom | Fresh | 5/5 | 2003-06-19T18:39:23.000Z | 2003-06-19 18:39:23 | — |
| 244563 | Bosley Crowther | New York Times | Fresh | 5/5 | 2003-05-20T17:11:33.000Z | 2003-05-20 17:11:33 | Greed, a despicable passion out of which other base ferments may spawn, is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in Treasure of Sierra Madre. |
| 244564 | Bob Bloom | Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2003-03-27T10:09:02.000Z | 2003-03-27 10:09:02 | An all-time classic; Bogart wonderful, but Walter Huston steals the show; a timeless treasure not to be missed. |
| 244565 | Jeffrey Westhoff | Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2002-08-09T07:04:44.000Z | 2002-08-09 07:04:44 | — |
| 244566 | Laura Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Fresh | 5/5 | 2002-08-06T10:02:29.000Z | 2002-08-06 10:02:29 | — |
| 244567 | Philip Martin | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | 4/5 | 2002-07-30T09:13:06.000Z | 2002-07-30 09:13:06 | — |
| 244568 | Scott Weinberg | eFilmCritic.com | Fresh | 5/5 | 2002-07-25T23:04:23.000Z | 2002-07-25 23:04:23 | — |
| 244569 | Unknown Critic | Boxoffice Magazine | Fresh | — | 2002-06-05T08:14:06.000Z | 2002-06-05 08:14:06 | The intense heat, thirst and near starvation suffered by the three main characters may prove wearisome to some women patrons. Males will best appreciate this 'red meat' fare. |
| 244570 | Pablo Villaça | Cinema em Cena | Fresh | 4/5 | 2002-05-31T13:44:14.000Z | 2002-05-31 13:44:14 | Uma fabulosa atuao de Humphrey Bogart (completamente esquecido no Oscar daquele ano, numa das maiores injustias que a Academia j cometeu). |
| 244571 | Herb Schoenfeld | Variety | Fresh | — | 2001-02-13T17:20:55.000Z | 2001-02-13 17:20:55 | The characters here are probed and thoroughly penetrated, not through psychoanalysis but through a crucible of human conflict, action, gesture and expressive facial tones. |
| 244574 | Tim Dirks | Filmsite | Fresh | — | 2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is a classic tale of the elusive search for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains by a trio of ill-matched |
| 244573 | Unknown Critic | TV Guide | Fresh | 5/5 | 2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | Arguably John Huston's greatest film, this powerful study of masculinity under pressure retains its power. |
| 244572 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B | 2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | The film plays as a morality fable, showing that the deadliest dangers to man are in his soul and not from the external dangers. |
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