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1948 |
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ACTION
WESTERN
ADVENTURE
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126 |
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A gold prospector (Humphrey Bogart, pictured left) is consumed by greed.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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John Huston's highly acclaimed, Oscar-winning action adventure is marred by a poor score, unconvincing sets and some banal dialogue, but is saved by the central performances and a gripping story. Bogart's Fred C. Dobbs, who changes from a drifter to a cold-blooded murderer, is one of his best performances.
Walter Huston's acting smells strongly of ham, but is always watchable.
Brutal for its time, pessimistic about human nature and a middling performer at the box office (it took some years to recover its costs), the film has proved very influential on later film-makers, especially Sam Peckinpah, whose The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) contain conscious allusions to it. City Slickers II : The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) is a failed attempt at a comic update.
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, Walter Huston 
, Tim Holt 
