The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trivia
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Mini Quiz
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Winning Oscars for both director John Huston and his actor father Walter, what 1948 Humphrey Bogart film is about a doomed gold hunt?
Walter Huston won Best Supporting Actor while John won Best Director, making them the first father-son duo to win Academy Awards for the same film.
Parodied in Blazing Saddles, bandits in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre refuse to show what "stinking" items?
The famous bandit leader, played by Alfonso Bedoya, actually says, "I don't have to show you any stinking badges," which pop culture often misquotes.
Mexican bandits in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre mention "stinking badges" to fake what profession?
The bandits corner the prospectors and claim to be Federales, or Mexican federal mounted police, hoping to trick the men into giving up their weapons.
Thieves in the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre discard the stolen gold dust after mistaking it for what?
The prospectors hid their unrefined gold in plain sacks, causing the ignorant thieves to empty the treasure into the wind just to steal the burros.
In the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, why do the bandits discard the stolen gold dust?
Because the unrefined gold resembled dirt, the thieves assumed it was sand used to secretly weigh down animal hides. They dumped the fortune, letting the wind scatter it.