#12. ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ (1948)

- Director: John Huston

- Stacker score: 94

- Metascore: 98

- IMDb user rating: 8.2

- Run time: 126 min.

In John Huston’s “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt play down-and-out Americans looking for work in Mexico during the 1920s. It’s an adventure classic that teaches a somber lesson about get-rich-quick schemes that’s filled with bitter irony around lost gold.

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