Much of the film is set in the mountainous area surrounding the village of Jungapeo, near San Juan Purua, Mexico. Director John Huston and art director John Hughes found the spot after an exhaustive 8,000 mile scouting trip through Mexico.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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