August 19, 2015 // The Treasure of the Sierra Madre // Springer

When: 7:30, August 19, 2015

Where: Casa de Springer

What: Pizza, whatever adult beverages you bring, a movie, and perhaps some DC

I first heard of this film while listening to a podcast called "Thinking Sideways" that deals with unsolved mysteries - in this case the mystery of who really was B. Traven. I have not seen the film before, but it won the Academy Awards in 1948 for Directing, Writing Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. It was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Hamlet. It probably won't suck.

From Wikipedia:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is an American dramatic adventurous neo-western with elements of Film Noir, written and directed by John Huston. It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), who in the 1920s join reluctant old-timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first Hollywood films to be filmed on location outside the U.S. (in the state of Durango and street scenes in Tampico, Mexico), although many scenes were filmed back in the studio and elsewhere in the U.S. The film is quite faithful to the source novel. In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

You can read more about B. Traven here.

See you Wednesday.

Bjorn - please bring your laptop and DC.