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 has been selected for preservation in the United States 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. The Gold Rush is the 5th highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than $4,250,000 at the box office in 1925. John Huston won the Academy Award for Directing in 1948 for his work on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This has the side effect of making Chaplin's slapstick routines appear more frantic than before, a fact that had proably influenced Chaplin's decision to shoot Modern Times at silent speed. 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:. Since the film was originally shot at 18 frames per second, the sound version, shown at 24 frames per second, is both shorter and faster than the original silent screenings.

Traven. Another major alteration is the ending, in which the now-wealthy Tramp originally gave Georgia a lingering kiss; the sound version ends before this scene. 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. One sequence is altered so that instead of the Tramp finding a note from Georgia Hale's character which he mistakenly believes is for him, he actually receives the note from her. 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). For the 1942 re-release Chaplin composed and recorded a musical score and narration and tightened the editing. The old-timer accurately predicts trouble but is willing to go anyway. The movie was originally released before the invention of sound film.

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. One famous scene shows the Little Tramp, starving, having to eat his boot; another famous scene shows a house sliding off a cliff in the snow, with Chaplin inside. It also stars Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite and Georgia Hale. He goes to the Klondike in order to find gold, and falls in love. The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role.