The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The film has also been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
. The film is consistently in the Internet Movie Database's top 250 films, and was #30 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #67 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills. One of the most famous parts of the movie, the speech was both inspirational and shocking for its clear anti-political correctness (written, produced and released during the Vietnam War) and was was based on historical research:. John Huston won the Academy Award for Directing in 1948 for his work on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In 2003 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film is the origin of a famous line, often misquoted as "We don't need no stinking badges!" The correct dialog (see also Stinking badges) is:. The movie was based on Patton's final weeks after being mortally injured in a car accident with flashbacks of Patton's earlier life.

Traven. A made-for-television sequel, The Last Days of Patton, was produced in 1986. Scott reprised his title role. The film was based on, and is quite faithful to the novel of the same name (1927 in German, 1935 in English) by enigmatic author B. It was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Effects, Special Visual Effects and Best Music, Original Score. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first films to be shot almost entirely on location (though the night scenes were filmed back in the studio). The film won six additional Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. The old-timer accurately predicts trouble but is willing to go anyway. "You son of a bitch," he gloats after outsmarting Rommel, "I read your book!"'.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 John Huston film in which two down-and-outers (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) in Mexico (bothering director John Huston for money in fun opening cameo) hook up with an old-timer (Walter Huston, the director's father) to prospect for gold. He has a classical quotation for every occasion. He seems formidably well-read, lecturing his subordinates on the history of the battlefields, the lessons of Napoleon, the experiences of earlier leaders who came this way. his heart-to-heart talks are with himself. He seems to have no personal life...

There is a touch of the manic about him. As Patton he always stands up in his Jeep, loves making speeches, grandstands, plunges into the action to personally goad his men, even directs traffic. Scott's theatricality is electrifying. Roger Ebert has said, Patton is not a war film so much as the story of a personality who has found the right role to play.

Scott's performance as Patton won him an Academy Award for Best Actor (which he famously refused, stating that the Oscars were "a meat parade"), and has been called "one of the great performances of all time". Schaffner. It was directed by Franklin J. Due to a lack of help from the family, Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North wrote the film from two biographies: Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Omar Bradley.

After that, the family was dead-set against the movie and refused to give any help to the filmmakers. By coincidence, the day they asked the family was the day after the funeral of Beatrice Ayer Patton, George Patton's widow. They wanted access to Patton's diaries and input from the family members. The Patton family was approached by the producers for help in making the film.

There were several attempts to make the movie, starting in 1953. Scott, Karl Malden and Michael Bates. It stars George C. Patton is a 1970 biographical film which tells the story of General George Patton's commands during World War II.

The movie writers of Patton's famous speech actually had to tone down Patton's actual words and statements. In December 1945, Patton was injured in a freak vehicle accident and died a few weeks later. At the end of the movie, Patton is nearly run over by a cart and says, "Imagine, after all I've been through, imagine me going out like that!".