Top Westerns: 3. The Treasure of Sierra Madre

4 months ago 09th Jul 09:55

However over the years the film has become a classic of it's genre as, unlike many other Western movies, it's not so much a cowboy movie but more of a film that looks at how money and greed can effect a flawed man's character.

The Treasure of Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be shot almost entirely on location outside the U.S. (in Tampico, Mexico).

Despite issues at the box office the film went on to win Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for filmmaker John Huston. His father Walter Huston also won Best Supporting Actor, and they became the first father and son to win at the same ceremony.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture but lost out to Hamlet, directed and starring Laurence Olivier.

The Treasure of Sierra Madre is more revered now as a movie than it was at the time of release and in 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw

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