Lux Radio Theatre - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Lux Radio Theatre - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode Date: July 24, 2026
Starring: Edmund O’Brien as Dobbs, Walter Brennan as Howard

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Overview

This episode of the Lux Radio Theatre brings to life “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” the classic tale of greed, camaraderie, mistrust, and fate in the quest for gold, set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Through gripping performances and the vintage charm of radio drama, listeners are drawn into the trials and unraveling relationships between prospectors Fred C. Dobbs, Curtin, and the elder Howard as their expedition for riches spirals into suspicion and tragedy.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Progression

The Setup: Hard Times in Tampico

• [01:53] Narration establishes Dobbs and Curtin as down-on-their-luck Americans in the Mexican seaport of Tampico. They’re warned of unscrupulous employers like McCormick.
• Notable Exchange:
  • “Six weeks in the oil fields, 120 in the shade. Only I ain't through with Mr. McCormick. Fred C. Dobbs is going to get his wages, see?”
    —Dobbs ([02:33])

The Lure of Gold

• [03:02–04:38] In a squalid flop house, the old prospector Howard expounds on the allure and dangers of gold:
  • “Why is gold worth some 20 bucks an ounce? ... because of the human labor and suffering that went into the getting of it.” —Howard ([03:19])
  • Howard warns that gold “can twist a man's soul.”
• Dobbs insists gold wouldn’t change him, a claim repeatedly scrutinized as greed emerges among the trio.

Setting Out: A Lucky Break

• [05:43–06:50] After recouping lost wages and winning the lottery, the group pools funds and gears up.
• [09:09–10:14] The journey begins, with a train trip into the wilds and brushes with bandits—foreshadowing the dangers ahead.

Trials in the Wilderness

• [12:29–14:49] The grueling climb tests their endurance.
  • “If I'd have known what prospecting meant, I'd have stayed in Tampico...” —Curtin ([13:06])
• Early excitement over likely ‘fool’s gold’ turns to hard labor and disappointment, showing the harsh reality over gold's myth.

Success and Growing Paranoia

• [18:09–19:49] Striking gold brings jubilation and plans for the future. Yet, distrust quickly permeates.
• [23:32–25:10] They decide to divide their take nightly, each man hiding his share—seeds of paranoia.
  • “Then each of us will hide his share of the treasure from the other two, huh?... and have to be forever on the watch that his hiding place is not discovered.” —Howard ([25:02])

Intrusion and Escalation

• [29:03–30:54] An interloper, James Cody, arrives, threatening exposure and demanding partnership—raising the stakes.
• [33:38–34:02] As they debate killing Cody, bandits attack. The bandit leader, Gold Hat, reemerges from their earlier train encounter.
• After the firefight, Cody is dead (not by their hands), intensifying the existential uncertainty.

The Price of Greed

• [37:03–39:33] The partners prepare to leave, gold in hand. Howard is taken by grateful villagers, leaving Curtin and Dobbs alone—with Howard’s share in their care.
• [41:07–44:45] Paranoia and exhaustion push Dobbs to the brink. He attempts to kill Curtin, believing betrayal is imminent:
  • “Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothing he don't mean.” —Dobbs ([42:05])
• Curtin survives and returns, gravely wounded, to Howard and the local villagers.

Ultimate Downfall

• [47:54–54:06] Dobbs, alone and desperate, is overtaken by Gold Hat’s bandits. They murder him and unknowingly discard the bags of gold dust as worthless sand.

The Final Irony

• [56:07–58:24] Howard and Curtin find only empty gold bags and realize the ultimate futility of their journey. Wind-tossed dust has reclaimed their fortune.
  • “It’s a great joke played on us by the Lord of fate and nature ... The gold is gone. Gone back where we found it.” —Howard ([57:09])

Epilogue: Acceptance and Moving On

• [58:24–60:02] The survivors resolve their fate:
  • Howard will remain with the Indian villagers as a medicine man:
    “Three meals a day, a roof over my head, and a drink now and then.” ([58:32])
  • Curtin, abetted by Howard’s generosity, plans to return to Dallas to deliver news to Cody's family.
• They part ways, each changed by the humbling experience.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Gold’s Corruption:
  • “I’ve dug gold all over the world. I know what gold does to a man.” —Howard ([04:34])
• On Trust and Greed:
  • “Then each of us will hide his share of the treasure from the other two, huh?... and have to be forever on the watch that his hiding place is not discovered.” —Howard ([25:02])
• On Fate's Irony:
  • “It’s the joke played on us by the Lord of fate and nature ... The gold is gone. Gone back where we found it.” —Howard ([57:09])

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Timestamped Key Scenes

• [03:02–04:38] Howard’s warnings about gold and human nature
• [06:55–09:10] Lottery win enables their expedition
• [23:32–25:10] The partners agree to nightly divisions, distrust clear
• [29:03–30:54] Encounter with Cody, the outsider
• [33:38–34:02] The moral debate over killing Cody, interrupted by bandits
• [41:07–44:45] Dobbs succumbs to greed and paranoia, attempts to kill Curtin
• [53:06–54:06] Bandits murder Dobbs and throw away the gold
• [57:09–58:24] Howard recognizes the cosmic joke—the gold lost to the desert

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Conclusion

Lux Radio Theatre’s take on “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is a masterful audio retelling, capturing both the adventure and the psychological unraveling at the heart of this tale. The episode lays bare the corrosive effects of greed and mistrust, culminating in an ending as ironically bitter as any in classic American storytelling. The rich dialogue and emotional performances convey the era’s spirit and morality, making it compelling both as drama and as a reflection on human nature.

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Transcript

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[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

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[Announcer / Radio Host]

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[Producer / Ken]

Lux presents Hollywood. Lieber Brothers Co. The makers of luxury toilet soap brings you the Lux Radio Theater. Starring Edmund o' Brien and Walter Brennan in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Greetings from Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you another of our 20 greats. The exciting, never ending drama of man's greed for gold. It's that fine Warner Brothers picture, the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And as our stars, one of this year's nominees for the Academy Award for best supporting actor, Edmund o' Brien won. Of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Starring Edmund o' Brien as Dobbs and Walter Brennan as. How.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

The first time I come up with them was in Campico. That's a seaport. Campico, northeast Mexico. I was having me a beer near the docks when they come in. It was a hot Sunday afternoon.

[Dobbs]

You a fellow American?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That's right, mister. What do you want?

[Dobbs]

I want to know about a guy named McCormick. Ever hear of him?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

McCormick? McCormick. Well, is he in the oil business?

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Yeah.

[Curtin]

You seen him lately?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, if I was you gentlemen, I'd run clear of McCormick. Hires a crew to work in the oil fields. Man never pays off. He's slick like oil.

[Dobbs]

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You don't mean to tell me he's hooked? Two smart fellow Americans like you?

[Dobbs]

That's right, Pop. Six weeks in the oil fields, 120 in the shade. Only I ain't through with Mr. McCormick. Fred C. Dobbs is going to get his wages, see?

[Howard]

Come on, Dobbs, let's have a beer.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I see him again that night. They come wandering in the flop house. 50 cent tavels for a bid. Me, I'm sitting up talking to a couple of sailors. Subject to conversation is gold.

[Howard]

You mean there's gold here in Mexico,

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

not 10 days away from this very spot. Whole mountain of gold waiting for the right guy to come along, discover a treasure, and then tickle it till she lets him have it. Now you tell me something, mister. Why is gold worth some 20 bucks an ounce?

[Howard]

I don't know, Pop.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Because it's scarce, I guess.

[Local / Indian Guide]

Look.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Thousand men say go searching for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky.

[Howard]

One out of a thousand.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

His fine represents not only his labor, but that of 999 others to boot. Announce the gold mystery is worth what it is. Because of the human labor and suffering that went into the getting of it.

[Howard]

I never thought of it just like that.

[Curtain]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

When you start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 smackers of it. And after months of sweating yourself dizzy and growing short on provisions and finding nothing, you finally come down to 15,000. Then 10 when you say, Lord, let me just have $5,000 worth. And I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life.

[Dobbs]

$5,000 is still a lot of dough.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, but if you make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away from it. Not even the threat of a miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10,000 more.

[Curtain]

Get 10.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You want 25? 25.

[Howard]

You want to get 50?

[Curtain]

50. 100.

[Dobbs]

Wouldn't be that way with me.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, hello, mister. You didn't find McCormick, huh?

[Dobbs]

I'll find him. But about gold, I swear, it wouldn't be that way with me. I take only what I set out to get.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I've dug gold all over the world. I know what gold does to a man.

[Curtin]

You talk as if you once struck it rich. How about it, Pop?

[Dobbs]

Yeah. What are you doing in here, Pop? Or down and outer?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That's gold, mister. Never knew a prospector yet that died rich. Sure, I'm a gnawed old bone now. But don't you guys think the spirit's gone. I'm all set to shoulder picking a shovel anytime anybody's willing to share expenses.

[Dobbs]

Oh, I bet you are.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Of course, going alone is the best way. But you gotta have a stomach for loneliness. And then, on the other hand, going with a partner or two is dangerous. Murder's always lurking about. Partners accusing each other of all sorts of madness.

[Dobbs]

Why should finding gold make a man any different? He's the right kind of man to start with. Gold ain't gonna change him.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You ever tried running down, mister? Ever tried prospecting?

[Dobbs]

No. No, I ain't.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You didn't have to answer that question. I knew the answer.

[Dobbs]

You know it all pop. I think I'll go to bed. Dream about piles of gold growing bigger and bigger and bigger.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

A week later, I see him again. Dobbs and Curtain, all lumps and bloodied up, looking for me. They was something to tell me. They take me to a cantina and put a bottle of beer under my nose.

[Dobbs]

We found the comic possum.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

From the looks of you, you found a peck of trouble, too.

[Curtin]

But we got our wages, every last penny of it.

[Dobbs]

And we've been thinking, why not try digging gold for a change? Well, it ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break. And this is a country where the nuggets of gold are just crying for you to take them out of the ground.

[Howard]

Well, that's what you said the other night, wasn't it?

[Curtain]

Yeah.

[Howard]

What's so funny?

[Curtin]

Living out in the open is cheaper than living in town. Our money lasts longer.

[Howard]

Sure it would.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Sure, you have to have equipment. You know how much that'd cost?

[Dobbs]

Well, we. We figured we'd ask you. We ain't denying anything. When you come right down to it, we don't know too much about prospecting. If you wasn't so old.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, Maybe I'd go with you. Is that what's on your mind? Maybe you'd take me along, huh?

[Howard]

Well, would you?

[Dobbs]

Would you go?

[Howard]

Of course I'll go.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Anytime, any day.

[Curtain]

Out for gold.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Always at your service. Well, I got 200American bucks ready.

[Curtain]

Cash.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

How much dough you guys got to put in?

[Dobbs]

150 bucks. Curtain here has got the same total of 500, eh?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Ain't hardly enough to buy tools, weapons and essentials.

[Producer / Ken]

Well, what do we need guns for?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, for one thing, meat. For another thing, bandits. Bandit country's where we be going. We ought to have 600 bucks between us anyways.

[Dobbs]

That much, huh?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You can't dig up any more, huh?

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Not a red center. Give me my money. Senor. Give me my money.

[Dobbs]

Get away from me, will you?

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Senor, you don't call for him.

[Howard]

You'll comprehend a glass full of beer

[Dobbs]

right in your kisser if you don't leave me alone. I tell you, I don't want any lottery tickets. And I'll bait it. Go on.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Lottery tickets? Why, that's for gambling, men.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

It's always whoever wins the lot. Lucky number gives the seller a present of 10%.

[Dobbs]

Wait a minute. What are you talking about?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Hey, Dobbs, he's trying to tell you he sold you a winning ticket.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Here, look. The least of all the winning numbers. You buy ticket for five Cent hours, remember? Three weeks ago.

[Dobbs]

Yeah, yeah, I remember. What about it?

[Bandit / Minor Character]

You win, senor, you win.

[Dobbs]

Give me that paper.

[Curtain]

Oh, brother, just look at that fat,

[Howard]

rich printed number, huh?

[Bandit / Minor Character]

You got the ticket?

[Howard]

Here, I got the ticket. Welcome sweet little smackaroos. Here ya son. Here's a present for you with my blessing.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Go to the lobby office. Senior, get the one.

[Curtain]

Hey, congratulations.

[Howard]

Congratulations yourselves. You stand a profit out of this,

[Dobbs]

same as I do.

[Howard]

Well, how do you figure that?

[Dobbs]

Well, didn't he just say we needed 600 bucks?

[Howard]

Well, look, that's.

[Dobbs]

That's what we got now, ain't it?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yes, just like that. Stroke of faith.

[Howard]

But how.

[Curtin]

How come you're putting up for me again?

[Howard]

Because this is an all or nothing proposition.

[Dobbs]

If we make a fine, we'll be

[Howard]

lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills.

[Dobbs]

If we don't, the difference between what you put up and what I put up ain't enough to keep me from

[Howard]

being right back where I was this afternoon. Put it there, pard. Thanks, Dobbs.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, gentlemen, here's what we'll do. We'll take a train to Perla. That's a little town for the Sierra Madre Mountains. That's where we'll buy our burros and get away from the railroad. Now, there's no use looking for gold anywheres near a railroad. We gotta go away where there's no trails at all, just bandits.

[Dobbs]

Sounds okay to me.

[Howard]

Okay, partner?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Sure, sure. We gotta go where no surveyor or anybody who knows anything about prospectin's ever been before. Well, drink up, gentlemen. Then we'll buy us a map and some railroad tickets. We bought about half our gear there and changed people, then took the train for puller. About 50 miles from pillar, out in the desert, there was a big boulder on the tracks. Bandits trying to raid the train. Look, they're retreating.

[Howard]

They're riding off.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Save your bullets, Mr.

[Curtain]

Dodge.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You're too far off now.

[Howard]

I got three of them. Credit me with three.

[Dobbs]

How many did you get?

[Curtin]

A couple there, I guess.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Bandits? Yeah, I guess they were expected. That's how come so many federal soldiers riding this train.

[Curtin]

That bandit rode right up to the train.

[Howard]

The one with the gold hat.

[Dobbs]

Yeah. I had my sights on as nice as you please, but the train gave a jolt and I missed them.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, you boys cooled off enough. Look at this map.

[Dobbs]

Oh, yeah, sure, sure.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

It ain't much of a map. Don't properly show whether it's mountain or desert. That shows the makers of the map didn't know theirselves. And that's Good. What are you doing, Dobbs?

[Dobbs]

Reloading. Can't tell if them bandits may come back.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Wake me up when the shooting starts.

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[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He's proven he's got a right to sell us them burrs. They all got the same brand. Seal it, Ray.

[Local / Indian Guide]

I will load your supplies on the borough, senor.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Thanks, son. Thanks.

[Local / Indian Guide]

My father is much worried for you, senor.

[Dobbs]

Worried? What's he worried for?

[Curtin]

Yeah, we paid him, didn't we?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He says we're going into very wild country. Jungles and in high mountains. Tigers so big and strong they can climb a tree with a bow in the mouth. Tigers? Here? Ah, they're more like leopards, I guess. Well, I'm glad to hear such tall chs, gentlemen. That means mighty few outsiders ever set foot up there.

[Dobbs]

Well, let's get going then.

[Howard]

Come on, kids, shake it up. Get them burrows loaded.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Hey, Curtin, take it easy, will ya?

[Dobbs]

Oh, there's a mountain climb and it

[Howard]

ain't like a walk around the block.

[Curtin]

Yeah, I'm. I'm dead. Come on, let's get a while.

[Dobbs]

There is gold in these mountains. How long would it have been there? Millions and millions of years, wouldn't it? What's our hurry? A couple of days more or less ain't gonna matter.

[Curtin]

Look at that old man.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Way ahead of us up there, you

[Curtin]

and me scared we'd have to pack him on our backs.

[Dobbs]

Yeah, that was when I took him for an ordinary human being.

[Curtin]

He's part goat, you know, if I'd have Known what prospecting meant, I'd have stayed in Tampico. Waited for another job to turn up.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Curtains.

[Howard]

Curtain.

[Curtain]

Look. Look.

[Dobbs]

What's the matter?

[Howard]

These rocks.

[Curtain]

Look.

[Howard]

Those little veins running through the rocks, look at them. Glitter yellow, too. Like gold. Gold?

[Curtain]

We've been sitting on a gold mine.

[Howard]

That's a water bag. Wash some of that dirt off.

[Curtain]

Howard. Howard, come back. Come back. We found something. We found something.

[Howard]

Here. Here's the water. There's a vein all over the rock.

[Curtain]

We struck it.

[Howard]

Curtain, look. Look over there.

[Curtain]

It's in all the rocks.

[Howard]

Just like he said.

[Curtain]

It's a bonanza.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Howard, look. Look at the rock.

[Curtain]

They're full of gold. Veins of gold.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Now, what you want to show me, gentlemen? This stuff wouldn't pay a dinner for Carlo.

[Howard]

It ain't gold, These pyrite.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Fool's gold. Oh, of course, there's not that. There's not plenty of the real stuff hereabouts. We've walked over it four or five times already.

[Howard]

You mean we've been patching it up?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Why, there ain't enough of it. Not enough gold to pay us a good day's wages. Well, you figured to sit here or eat?

[Dobbs]

Come on, Kurt, let's go.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Next time you fellas strike at ridge, holler for me first before you start splashing the water around. Water is precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold. It was fine country. Inspiring. Didn't see a soul. Just the beast of the jungle. And birds. I felt good. 10 years younger. Better than either of them. Wore them down to just plain gristle. Come night, they just lay on the ground, puffing and groaning. Too dogged out to sit up and eat the beans.

[Dobbs]

I can't move. Oh, I just want to lie here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Ain't you going to have some beans? Going through some mighty rough country tomorrow. You better have some beans.

[Dobbs]

Shut up, pot. Go on, eat them. Just let us alone.

[Curtin]

That wind, it's blowing up awful cold.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Getting cold.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Is it getting cold? Yeah. Feels like a norther. Yeah, when they blow hard, they set that desert country below us right on its hind legs. You know, we're lucky to be where we are. Lucky, huh? Reckon there's only a couple of more days of this heavy stuff. Pretty soon we'll be leveling off. Yeah, pretty soon now.

[Dobbs]

Howard. Howard, come here. A couple of more days, you said. That was three nights ago. Yeah.

[Curtin]

We've really had enough. Howard, Dobbs and me, we just want to give up.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Give up, huh?

[Dobbs]

Yeah. Leave the whole outfit right here back to civilization.

[Curtain]

What's that? You say, go back. Go back.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

We'll kill my old grandmother. I got two very elegant bedfellows that

[Curtain]

kick at the first gust of wind and hide in the closet when the thunder rumbles.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

My, my, my.

[Curtain]

What great prospect.

[Howard]

Lay off us.

[Curtain]

How Two shoe clerks is what you are.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Two shoe clerks read in a magazine about prospecting for gold in the land of the midnight sun.

[Howard]

Shut your traps. Shut up or I'll smash your head flat.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Go ahead. Pick up that rock and throw it. If you did, you'd never leave this wilderness alive. Without me, you two would die here miserable in a rat.

[Curtin]

Leave him alone, Dobbs. Can't you see the old man's nuts?

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Nuts?

[Curtain]

Nuts, am I?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellas.

[Curtain]

You're so dumb, there's nothing to compare you with. You're dumber than the dumbest jackass. You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treading on with your own feet. Look at me. I'm dancing on it. Doing a dig on a mountain of gold.

[Howard]

What are you talking about?

[Curtain]

You mean this is it? There's gold here? What you expect to see nuggets of molten gold? Tourists here come from someplace further up. Up there. See? That's where we gotta go. Up there.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Only I'm going alone because my two

[Curtain]

courageous companions have agreed between themselves. Desert to desert and go back. Well, you was dead.

[Dobbs]

I'll take one more day of it. What do you say, Kurt?

[Curtin]

Well, one more day won't kill us. Changed your mind, huh?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, thank you, my two fine feathered friends. You move me to tears with your

[Curtain]

face and trust in me. One more day, huh? Well, then you can follow my trail because I'm gonna be camping up there. Ton.

[Dobbs]

This is it, Howard.

[Howard]

Yeah, this is stuff right here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That's right.

[Dobbs]

Gold. It sure don't look like I thought it would.

[Howard]

Well, that's just sand.

[James Cody]

That's just sand?

[Dobbs]

Yeah, it's just like plain sand. It don't glitter.

[Howard]

I thought it would glitter.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, it'll glitter when it's refined, but that's another guy's job. You got to know how to recognize it. You got to know how to tickle her so she'll come out too. It's mighty rich, this sand. This will pay good.

[Dobbs]

How good?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, about 20 ounces to the ton.

[Curtin]

That's some $20 an ounce.

[Dobbs]

How many tons can we handle in a week?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

It depends on how hard we work. Well, we better pitch camp down the mountain there a bit.

[Dobbs]

Why do that? When the gold is here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, in case anybody happens by bandits or soldiers chasing bandits or Injuns, in case that happens, we just tell them we're hunters, see?

[Howard]

Hunters.

[Curtin]

Wouldn't it just be easier to file a claim?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Easy, maybe, but not so profitable. Wouldn't be no time till an emissary from one of them big mining companies would be right up here with a paper in his hand showing we had no right to be here. Well, how does it feel to be men of property?

[Dobbs]

I'm sorry about the fuss we kicked up, Pop. I guess we were pretty dumb.

[Curtin]

Yeah, but we made it, huh?

[James Cody]

We're here,

[Curtin]

man the property.

[Howard]

What do you know?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Everything's going to be all right from now on, huh?

[Dobbs]

Sure it is. Why not?

[Howard]

Why not, huh? Why not?

[Curtain]

We'll find out, won't we, Dubsy?

[Howard]

Yes, sir. We'll find out.

[Producer / Ken]

In a moment, we'll continue with Act 2 of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Now for our Hollywood Reporter, Francis Scully.

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[Producer / Ken]

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[Announcer / Radio Host]

Act two of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Starring Edmund O' Brien as Dobbs and Walter Brennan as.

[Producer / Ken]

How.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

For a month I guess we didn't mine a grain of ore. There were things to do first. Such as setting up camp corrals for the burrows and the sluice ways off in the creek to wash out the gold. Finally the time come when we weighed up our first take of the treasure.

[Curtin]

How much, Howard?

[Howard]

How much figure we got there?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, I'd say about $5,000 worth of rigging.

[Dobbs]

Not bad. When do we start dividing it up?

[Curtin]

Well, why divided now? When the time comes, we're all going back together, aren't we?

[Dobbs]

I'm for dividing as we go along. Make. Make each guy responsible for his own good.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, I'd just soon have it that way myself. I haven't liked the responsibility of guarding your treasure any too well.

[Dobbs]

Who asked you? Two pals?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That's right. You never did ask me. Only I thought I was the most trustworthy of the three.

[Producer / Ken]

You?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I said the most trustworthy as far as being the most honest.

[Dobbs]

Well, no one can say I don't get it.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

All right. Suppose you was charged with taking care of the goods One day I'm deep in the brush and let's say Curtain here is on his way to the village to get provisions. That'd be your big chance to pack up and leave us in the cold, wouldn't it?

[Dobbs]

Only a guy that's a thief at heart would think me likely to pull a stunt like that.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, right now it wouldn't be worth your while, of course, but when the pile's grown, well, think of such things you will.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Yeah.

[Curtin]

How about yourself?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I'm not quickening my feet any longer. You fellas are a lot tougher than when you started out, too. Well, you'd have me strung up in no time. That's why I think I'm the most trustworthy.

[Curtin]

Well, looking at it that way, I guess you're right. But no, let's do like Dobbs says. Divide the proceeds every night.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, that's well by me, gentlemen. And then each of us will hide his share of the treasure from the other two, huh?

[Dobbs]

Well, why not?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

And having done so, he'll have to be forever on the watch that his hiding place is not discovered.

[Howard]

What a dirty, filthy.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, no, no, not dirty. Not dirty, baby. Only I know what kind of ideas even supposedly decent people get when gold's at stake. All right, Curtin, hand me them weighing scales. And here she goes, boys, three ways.

[Curtin]

Venison stew.

[Howard]

That sure tastes good, Pop.

[Curtin]

Where's Dobbs?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, he ate the fool.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Alone?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah.

[Curtin]

Say, you tell me something, Bob. What? What you gonna do with all your hard earned money?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I reckon I'll settle down some quiet place. Get me a little business, hardware, grocery store. Spend a better part of my time reading comic strips and adventure stories. One thing for sure, I'm not going to go prospecting no more.

[Dobbs]

What's all that about?

[Curtin]

Well, just John Dobbsy telling each other what we'll do when we get back.

[Howard]

Me, I got it all figured. First off, I'm going to get a

[Dobbs]

brand new set of duds, dozen of everything.

[Howard]

Then I'm going to a swell cafe

[Dobbs]

and order everything on the bill of fare.

[Howard]

And if it ain't just right, and

[Dobbs]

even if it is, I'm gonna ball

[Howard]

out the manager and make him take it all back.

[Curtin]

What's next on the program?

[Dobbs]

Well, what would be.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You know what? We ought to put some kind of a limit on the take here.

[Curtin]

What kind of limit?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, say, $25,000 for each man.

[Dobbs]

25,000. Small potatoes. 50 anyway.

[Howard]

75 would be more like it. I'm young, I need dough and plenty of it.

[Curtin]

No use making hogs of ourselves.

[Dobbs]

Hog, am I Maybe you don't know

[Howard]

it, but I'd be within my rights

[Dobbs]

if I demanded half again as much as you get.

[Howard]

How come? I put up the lion's share of the cash, didn't I?

[Dobbs]

So you did, Dobsy, but.

[Curtin]

Well, I always meant to pay you back.

[Howard]

In any civilized place, the biggest investor

[Dobbs]

gets the biggest return, don't he?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

There's one thing in favor of the wild.

[Dobbs]

It's not that I intend to demand it, but I'd be within my rights if I did.

[Howard]

The next time you go calling me a hog, just remember what I could

[Dobbs]

have done if I wanted to.

[Howard]

Funny, ain't it, Pop? Yeah, real funny.

[Dobbs]

Catch me sleeping, huh? I'm not that dumb. Say, them guys try to put anything over on me, it'll be be a costly one for both of them. You know what's good for you? You don't monkey around with Fred C. Dobbs.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

What you say, Dobbs, Huh?

[Dobbs]

Nothing.

[Curtain]

Better look out.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Bad sign when a fella starts talking to himself.

[Dobbs]

Yeah, who else am I going to talk to? Certainly not to you or Curtin.

[Howard]

I don't get the idea you two are putting over anything on me.

[Dobbs]

I know what your game is.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, you know more than I do.

[Howard]

Why am I elected to go to the village tomorrow? Why me instead of you?

[Dobbs]

A curtain time, I'd be gone.

[Howard]

Give you plenty of chance to discover where I hid my goods, wouldn't it?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, now, you got any fear along them lines, why don't you take the goods with you?

[Howard]

And run the risk of having them taken from me by bandits?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

They kid you anyway, Dobbsy, just for the sport of it.

[Howard]

Oh, so that's it. You're hoping bandits will get me. That'd save you two a lot of trouble, wouldn't it?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

All right, Dobbs, forget about it.

[Howard]

I ain't going to the village, see? And you can go back and tell that to Curtin.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Okay, partner, I'll tell him. So Curtin went down to the village for provisions. He was all stood up coming back. There were soldiers in the village chasing bandits. And that wasn't all either. He met up with an American fellow

[Curtin]

named Cody and he kept pumping me.

[Howard]

Followed me right into that store.

[Curtin]

Wanted to know what I was doing here.

[Howard]

What'd you tell him? Well, I. I said that I was a hunter. I said I was a professional hunter. Kept asking me did I see anything up here that looked like gold.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

You shook him off. Couldn't you get rid of him?

[Curtain]

Huh?

[Curtin]

I couldn't.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

No.

[Curtin]

He followed me.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Are you sure.

[Curtain]

He traded.

[Curtin]

Yes, I'm sure.

[Dobbs]

What makes you so positive?

[Howard]

Because every time.

[Curtin]

Because if you turn around, you can see for yourself.

[Dobbs]

There he is.

[James Cody]

Hello.

[Dobbs]

All right, you walk over here to the fire.

[James Cody]

I. I guess I'm not wanted, huh? And I just couldn't resist the chance to sit around and jaw with an American.

[Dobbs]

Don't make any mistake, mister. We got no use for you. We're full up. No vacancies back where you came from. Take our blessing with you. Thanks.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

If you're hungry, mister, go on, help yourself.

[Dobbs]

Yeah, go ahead. Tonight, you're our guest.

[Producer / Ken]

See?

[Dobbs]

Tomorrow morning. Look out. No trespassing. Beware of the dogs. Get it? I. I got a few hides while you were gone, Curtin. Five foxes and a tiger.

[Producer / Ken]

Oh.

[Curtin]

How are the skin?

[Dobbs]

Pretty good.

[James Cody]

Excuse me for butting in, but there's no wild game around here worth going after.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, you're right, mister. That's why we've made up our minds to clear out.

[James Cody]

That might be pretty good ground for something else.

[Curtin]

I told you in the village, there's no gold around here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Look, my boy, if there'd been one single ounce of it, I'd have smelled it, believe me.

[James Cody]

Oh, you're not as smart as you appear to be.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Gold, huh? You know, that gives me an id. Guess I'll sleep on it. Gentlemen.

[Curtin]

Yeah, me too. I'll see. I'll see you in the morning, Cody.

[Dobbs]

Sorry, there's no room in our tent. If you want to, you can roll up here by the fire.

[James Cody]

Ah, that's fine.

[Dobbs]

Thanks.

[Howard]

Thanks a lot.

[Curtin]

I can't figure him out. Is he wise to us or not?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Look, you two guys go to sleep. I'll be watchdog for a couple hours, and you and Dobbs can take your turns.

[Dobbs]

You got a gun handy?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Right here.

[Dobbs]

Okay.

[James Cody]

Haven't got much sleep last night.

[Producer / Ken]

That's your friend.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That's a fact.

[Local / Indian Guide]

We didn't.

[Dobbs]

Look, why don't we lay our cards

[James Cody]

on the table right now, huh? Now, you found gold here. I know that. And because I know it, you're gonna have to do one of three things.

[Dobbs]

Look who's telling us what we gotta do.

[James Cody]

One of three things. Kill me, run me off or take me in as a partner. Partner?

[Dobbs]

Why?

[James Cody]

Now, let's consider the first. If you start killing people, just how

[Dobbs]

far are you prepared to go with it?

[James Cody]

Another guy may come along tomorrow, you know.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, ain't much we stop at, mister, to protect your interests.

[James Cody]

Well, I only say that killing me isn't the answer. Now, as for choice number Two, you run me off and I might very well inform on you. 25% of your gold is the reward I get.

[Curtin]

That's a pretty strong argument in favor of killing you.

[James Cody]

I don't deny that. But you take me in as a partner and you don't lose anything. I'm not asking for a share of what you've made so far, only in the province to come. Why don't you think it over? I'll be looking after my burro.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, Howard, sending them away is out of the question.

[Dobbs]

Fred C. Dobbs ain't a guy likes being taken advantage of. We ain't got no real choice at all. Bump him off.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, but what do we gain by killing him? I don't mind being taken some advantage of as long as it ain't money out of my pocket.

[Dobbs]

And whoever else happens along, they're to be invited in, too. Come one, come.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

All right, you get a point there, Dubs. No question about it. But to kill a man?

[Dobbs]

Why, what's the matter? Ain't you up to it?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Sure I'm up to it. Let the majority decide. What do you say? Curtain for again?

[Dobbs]

Well, for or against?

[Curtin]

4.

[Dobbs]

Okay, we'll make it short and sweet for him. Stand right where you are, Cody.

[James Cody]

Gun. You're going to shoot me, huh?

[Dobbs]

Yeah, you convinced us.

[James Cody]

Before you start shooting, you better take a look down there in the valley. There's some men coming on horses.

[Dobbs]

So that's your stinking game. I knew you as an informer.

[Howard]

I knew it all the time.

[James Cody]

You're wrong, brother. This means all our funerals.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

They're bandaged, gentlemen. About a dozen of them.

[James Cody]

Somebody at the village must have told him about the American hunter up here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, we better start thinking about a way to defend ourselves. We could try hiding in the rocks, but then we'd lose our birds and the whole outfit. The best thing for us to do, I'd say, is to make a fight of it.

[James Cody]

Well, is it you3 against them or us4?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

For now, I guess it's.

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[Dobbs]

Yeah, we'll settle your case later.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

If you're alive, he's got something there, Dobsy.

[Curtain]

That's right.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

If we're alive. The bandits turn out to be Gold Hat and his boys. Same crowd that held up the train on our way to Perla. They spotted us all right. Started pouring it onto us too. Then all at once, they turned and took off. Didn't make sense. Then we saw why. Far down the mountain, hot on that trail, was maybe 50 soldiers.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Federals.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

We just stood there watching them shoot it out half a mile below us.

[Curtain]

Look at them Federals dig em tied. Chilling up and swallowing.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Better stay covered, Dobbsy. If them soldiers start spreading out, we may have company after all.

[Local / Indian Guide]

Yeah.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Yeah.

[Howard]

Get down, Turkey. Hey, come here.

[Curtin]

You guys like the bandits settled our problems.

[Howard]

Cody's dead.

[Dobbs]

What do you mean he's dead?

[James Cody]

Take a look.

[Dobbs]

Bullet right through his neck.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I wonder who he was. Maybe we better go through his pockets, huh? Maybe he's got both somewhere.

[Curtin]

Here's his wallet, Pop. James Cody, Dallas, Texas.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

And a picture. Girl. Little kid. Guess she's his wife, huh?

[Dobbs]

Well, I guess we better dig a hole for him. Funny how it's all worked out. We didn't have to shoot them after all.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Gentlemen, were you to ask me, I'd say it's time we considered leaving this mountain.

[Dobbs]

How much gold do you figure we got?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, upwards of 35,000 apiece. And I'll tell you, we ought to be plenty thankful.

[Dobbs]

All right, let's call it quits then. Sooner the better.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

It'll take another week to put the mountain back into shape. The what?

[Dobbs]

To the mountain.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

We wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. The least we can do for all the wealth she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, then I'll do it myself.

[Curtin]

You know, you talk about a mountain like it was a real woman.

[Howard]

You know a lot better to me

[Dobbs]

than any woman I ever know.

[Howard]

Keep your shirt on, old timer.

[Dobbs]

Sure, I'll help you.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Six days later, we loaded the gold on the burrows and little canvas bags and started down late that afternoon. Pushing through the brush, we walked straight into a bunch of Injuns. They were peaceful and friendly. They wanted help.

[Dobbs]

What do you mean, help? What kind of help?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

They've been heading for Durango. Seems some little boy in their village fell into the river. They fished him out, but he won't come to. He ain't dead, they say he just won't come to.

[Dobbs]

Well, that's tough.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Really want me to go back to that village with them? Ain't very fair. Maybe I can do something.

[Dobbs]

Why?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, were I to refuse them, they'd make me go. I'll be back soon. Before morning, probably.

[Dobbs]

And have you not?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, leaving my birds with you. Look after me good. Shall I get back?

[Howard]

It's okay, Bob. We'll wait for you here.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Look, it's no use augifying. I'm sorry, gentlemen. I gotta go back again to the village.

[Howard]

But you just said you fixed the kid.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Fixing the kid was simple. Artificial respiration and a few Boy Scout tricks. You see, I got a visit with them now. Their gods will be angry if they don't show their gratitude to me.

[Howard]

Tell them to forget it.

[Dobbs]

They don't always a thing.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I tried that. Just made a man.

[Howard]

I'll handle it. Hey, Savvy?

[Curtain]

Hungry? No. Pod a quid arm. No. Wait a minute.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Wait a minute. You touch a gun, we'll be scalping in a half an hour.

[Howard]

What's he saying now?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He says it don't make any difference about you guys, but I got to go back with him.

[Dobbs]

Oh, it's like that, huh? They just want you.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, it looks like it.

[Dobbs]

Well, go on, then.

[Howard]

Go meet in Durango.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, what about my goods?

[Curtin]

Just take him with you.

[Dobbs]

If they found out, they might forget

[Howard]

he was their honored guest and bump them off, huh, Pop?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

What'll I do? Dump it here on the ground?

[Curtin]

No, we. We'll take him with us if you want us to.

[Dobbs]

Well, any better ideas, Pop?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Reckon that's about the only solution.

[Dobbs]

I bet you you'll remember this the next time you try to do a Good deed.

[Howard]

Don't worry, Pop.

[Dobbs]

Good luck to you.

[Howard]

Yeah, and look out for those Indian dames. One of them squaws might marry you.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Maybe you might do that. Pick me out a good looking squaw and marry it. You know, easy to dress, feed and entertain. Well, so long, partners. See you in Durango. And so I left him and went back with the engines. No choice. I had to go behind me in keeping the curtain. And Dubs was my share of the treasure. $35,000.

[Dobbs]

I'm stopping here for the night.

[Howard]

You hear me, Curtin? I'm stopping here early yet.

[Curtin]

We could make four or five miles more before dark.

[Dobbs]

Go on then. But take his burros with you. They ain't my responsibility.

[Howard]

Seeing Twan Hager is nothing but trouble for two days.

[Dobbs]

Trying off trails, smashing their packs against the rocks. He knew what he was doing when he turned them over to us.

[Curtin]

So you're staying here for the night, Em?

[Dobbs]

You heard me.

[Howard]

Well, if you can't go any further. Who says I can't? Don't make me laugh. I can go four times as far as a mug like you. But I don't wanna. I could if I wanna, but I don't wanna see mud.

[Curtin]

What's the use of hollering, Dobbsy? Okay, we'll.

[Dobbs]

How far do you suppose the railroad is from here?

[Curtin]

It's hard to say. Reach the high pass in two days more, get fresh water. After that, I don't know. Hey, what's the joke, Dobson?

[Howard]

I was just thinking what a foment play that old jackass made when he

[Dobbs]

put all his goods in our keepers. He figured he'd let us do his sweating for him. Did he? Well, we'll show him.

[Curtin]

Show him what?

[Dobbs]

Can't you see? It's all ours now. We don't go back to Durango at all. Steal his goods. Yeah, we take his goods and go north. Leave the old jackass flat.

[Curtin]

Oh, now, look, you don't. You don't really mean that.

[Dobbs]

Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothing he don't mean.

[Curtin]

As long as I can do anything about it. You won't take a single grain of that old man's good.

[Howard]

Oh, you want to take it all for yourself, huh? Cut me out. You are out of your head. I'm on the level with the old

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

man, same as I do with you.

[Howard]

Sure, for a long time I've had my suspicions about you and now I know I've been right. What suspicion? You're going to bump me off, bury me out here in the bush like a dog you are. Crazy dog. And you not only have the old man's goods, but mine in a bargain. You'll have yourself a big laugh, won't you? Thinking how dumb the old man and I were.

[Dobbs]

Put your hands up.

[Howard]

Curtain D. Was I right or was I right? Go on, stand up. Get on your feet and take it

[James Cody]

like a man trying to put one

[Howard]

over on Fred's feet. Pull a gun on me, huh? Put a gun on me. Only now I get the gun. Now you listen to me.

[James Cody]

Go on. Go on.

[Howard]

Pull a bobby.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Look, you're all wrong.

[Curtin]

I. I never intended to rob you.

[Dobbs]

You really mean that?

[Howard]

Then give me back my look.

[Curtin]

Look, wouldn't it be better the way things are, to split up? I mean, right now, tonight?

[Dobbs]

Oh, that would suit you fine, wouldn't it?

[Howard]

So you could fall on me from behind, shoot me in the back. All right, then. I'll go first. And wait for me on the trail, huh? Ambush me. If I meant to kill you, why

[Curtin]

wouldn't I do it right here?

[Howard]

Cause you're yeller.

[Dobbs]

You haven't got nerve to pull the

[Howard]

trigger when I'm looking you straight in the eyes.

[Dobbs]

You really believe that, don't you?

[Howard]

Joke. Full of jokes.

[Curtin]

All right, we won't separate. We'll just go on together. And every day you'll take the trail right ahead of me. And every night I'm gonna tie you up.

[Dobbs]

Oh, I'll tell you what, Curtin. I'll make you a little bet.

[Howard]

3 times 35 is 105. I'll bet you $105,000 you go to

[Dobbs]

sleep before I do. How long can you go without sleeping? Curtains? Two days? Three?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Four?

[Howard]

Whatever it is, I can go longer.

[Producer / Ken]

See?

[Dobbs]

And the day you fall down on the trail, that's the day Fred C.

[Howard]

Dobbs wins his bet. $105,000,

[Dobbs]

just like I said. Curtin couldn't take it, could you?

[Howard]

Fell asleep, didn't you? Who wins the bet? Who wins the bet?

[Curtin]

The old man catch up with you?

[Howard]

I got an answer for that one too. I'll tell him you tied me to a tree.

[Dobbs]

That you stole all the goods.

[Howard]

Yours, mine and his. So he'll be looking for you, Curtin. Not for me.

[Dobbs]

A fat chance. He's got a find in you. Go along, partner.

[Producer / Ken]

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[Dobbs]

clock,

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[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, I'd left Dobbs and Curtin on the trail with all my goods and gone to the village of the Injuns. They couldn't do enough for me. Food, drink, and pretty little girls to brush the flies off of me. Yes, sir, old man Howard was a regular mole girl, a real potentate. Then some of their hunters came in from the brush. They were carrying a man. It was Clinton with two bullet holes in him.

[Howard]

Dobs did it.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Howard Dobsted it. Made off with that goods, huh?

[Howard]

How could he be such a bad shot? He left me there. Thought I was there.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Take it easy, son. You're talking too much.

[Curtin]

Don't you worry about me.

[Dobbs]

I'll pull out of this, if only

[Howard]

to get that guy.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Well, I reckon we can't blame Dodge too much.

[Curtin]

What do you mean?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Dobbs ain't a real killer, as killers go. The big mistake was leaving you two fellas alone out there in the wilderness. That was a mighty big temptation, partner, believe me.

[Curtin]

Dobbs shot me down in cold blood. He shot me a second time just to make sure.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, a man goes crazy with that much wealth in his reach. Maybe if I'd have been young, been out there with either one of you, and I might have been tempted, too. Well, Captain, nothing to do but sit out after him.

[Curtin]

Yeah, a couple of days now, I'll be okay.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, but not for chasing down a mountainside.

[Curtin]

Well, the Indians there, they could loan us horses.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

And that's why I figure I'll catch Dobbs. He'll go as fast and as far as a man can, but he's alone with all them burros and on foot.

[Curtin]

I'm going with you.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Give me 10 days, two weeks, I'll come back for you.

[Curtin]

I'm going with you.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Look at you. You're weak as a newborn kitten.

[Curtin]

Still going?

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Yeah.

[Dobbs]

Reckon you're going.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Some of the Injuns came with us. As we rode north, I tried to figure out what I'd do as I in Dobbs boots, I knew what I'd do. I'd try to make time. I'd sacrifice anything for time. Sleep, rations, even water.

[Curtin]

What'd they find?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Another dead bird. Dobbs is really pushing him. That's the third bird he's killed off.

[Curtin]

I don't like this wind that's blowing like this.

[Howard]

Cover up his trail.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, it might blow like this for days.

[Howard]

We're not gonna stop, are we? Dobbs won't stop.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Ah, we'll keep going.

[Shannon Maldonado]

He.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He'll be running out of water soon.

[James Cody]

We were going to fill up at the high pass.

[Howard]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Only he went north. My friends here say the water's mighty scarce in the north. They say something else, too. Curtin.

[Curtin]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Gold hat and a couple of his pals escaped the federals. They're on foot. They passed here just about a day before.

[Curtain]

Dobbs,

[Sailor / Minor Character]

There is a mirror. Six as a model. One man and six burros trying to squeeze water out of the bottle. Six burrow shoes.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Wear shoes.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Six shoes.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

I think the three of us have a little fun. Jewelry. Come on. We say hello to our friends.

[Howard]

Water.

[Dobbs]

Water. I made it. And I made it. The town can't be far off now. The road over there. Just one more day and.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Hola, mijo.

[Dobbs]

What do you want?

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Well, three poor men in Russia. Cigarettes. You have cigarettes, maybe?

[Dobbs]

No, no, I haven't. I got a little tobacco. That'll do.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Oh, he's got a little tobacco.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

No paper to roll it in?

[Dobbs]

Paper. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Going into Perl, amigo.

[Dobbs]

That's right. I gotta sell my burrows. I got to get the money.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Marches for cigarette.

[Dobbs]

Yeah.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

You sick, maybe?

[Producer / Ken]

Sick?

[Dobbs]

No, no, I ran out of water. All right, now, I could use a good burrow driver. Maybe. Maybe two or three. Hey, when we get to town, I'm a hunter. You see all those hides?

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Hey, did I know you're from. From place? Maybe I know you are.

[Dobbs]

No. No, I. I don't think so.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

You are all alone there. Poor lonely man.

[Dobbs]

Oh, no, no, I'm not alone. I. I got a couple of friends coming along. They. They ought to be here any minute.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

They look at your face. I know I see you before.

[Howard]

Up in the mountains.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

The guy in the rocks.

[Howard]

Before the federales changed. You're crazy.

[Dobbs]

I never seen you till now.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

You don't remember me? Me with the yellow sombrero, the gold hat. I think you tell a lie.

[Howard]

No, no, I'm not lying.

[Dobbs]

Listen.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Oh, yeah. Had a lot of hides on the burros, huh?

[Dobbs]

Yeah, like I.

[Howard]

Like I said, I'm a hunter.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Ought to bring lots of money, huh? All this hide.

[Dobbs]

Get away from them.

[Howard]

Get away from them hide.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

I can tell. These burros, too.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Hey, watch this.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

These little cloth bags filled with something.

[Dobbs]

Give me the knife.

[Local / Indian Guide]

I think I.

[Curtin]

Look in the little bag.

[Howard]

You touch those bags, I'll kill you.

[Local / Indian Guide]

Okay. He's some kind of a joke.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Nothing in his back.

[Curtain]

Hold his hand.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Dirt.

[Curtain]

All the little bags got.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

Only dead.

[Howard]

Get out of here. Clear out before I.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

You can't run in the clouds. With that, you can only shoot one of us before the other two jump on you. That one won't mind too much because the federalists are after him anyway.

[Howard]

And back there, stand out

[Curtain]

with the rock.

[Local / Indian Guide]

I hit him with a rocket.

[Curtain]

Shoes.

[Howard]

I get his shoes finishing off.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Come on, finish me.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

How you feeling? Couldn't.

[Howard]

I'm all right.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

That'll be the town over the hill there. Perler. We're almost there.

[Howard]

Yeah, but will Dobbs be there?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yes, sir. That's the question. All right. Shooting? Yeah, kind of like a body sound. Seem to come from town. Banditos see. Federales. Execution. Probably. We know pretty soon now. Looks like we guessed it right. Curtain. Execution. Three bandits. Storekeeper here says one of them was gold hat. You finally got him.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Yes.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He says that's not all either.

[Howard]

Look, we better keep after Dobbs.

[Producer / Ken]

Now, you think of Madas.

[Local / Indian Guide]

No, teacher.

[Producer / Ken]

Senor.

[James Cody]

To compaero.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Bueno. To compa. He's dead. Curtain. Garb is dead.

[Curtain]

Dead?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah. Those bandits.

[Howard]

But. But our goods. What's he say about our goods?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He says he's got everything in the back of the store.

[Howard]

It's not here.

[Curtin]

How would.

[Howard]

The gold is gone. Everything else is here but the gold.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

No, senor.

[Local / Indian Guide]

No, Theo, no.

[Howard]

Well, huh?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

He says everything the bandits had right here.

[Local / Indian Guide]

Senor, you asked my father about some little canvas bags?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Yeah, that's right.

[Local / Indian Guide]

Where are they? I heard the bandidos talking in the cave, seor. They say the senor whom they killed had canvas bags with sand in them. Many, many bags on the boroughs.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Where are they? Where'd they kill the Americans?

[Local / Indian Guide]

At the water hole by the ruined wall outside the town.

[Curtain]

Can you tag us there?

[Local / Indian Guide]

The seasonal? Right away.

[Curtin]

There's another one.

[Howard]

Howard. It's empty. These bags are all empty. They're cut open and empty.

[Curtain]

They keep the gang. Keep looking there.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

All right, they're empty. Another couple hours.

[Curtain]

In this wind, we wouldn't even find a bag.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Whipped away and buried under the dust of the earth.

[Howard]

But what happened here?

[Local / Indian Guide]

Bandits.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Them miserable, stupid, ignorant bandits.

[Curtain]

Stole Dobbs shoes, took the shirt off

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

on his back and threw away $105,000 worth of gold.

[Howard]

Oh, it must be here on the ground somewhere.

[Curtain]

In this wind. It's a big joke, Curtain, old boy, laugh. It's a great joke played on us by the Lord of fate and nature, or whatever you prefer. But whoever or whatever played it certainly had a sense of humor. The cold is gone, Curtain. Gone Back where we found it. Going.

[Howard]

All right.

[Curtain]

Well, gone. Doctor is dead and the gold is gone.

[Bandit / Minor Character]

This is worth 10 months of suffering and labor.

[Curtain]

This is Jo. Look at. Look at the Indians when they're laughing.

[Howard]

Too

[Sailor / Minor Character]

holy.

[Curtain]

They don't know what they're laughing at. Our own Private Joe.

[Curtin]

Howard.

[Howard]

What?

[Local / Indian Guide]

Yeah.

[Curtin]

Next year, I wonder.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

As far as I'm concerned, I'm fixed. I'll go back to the engines.

[Announcer / Radio Host]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Be a medicine man. Three meals a day, a roof over my head and a drink every now and then to warm me up. I'll be worshiped and fed, treated like a high priest for telling people things they want to hear. Good medicine men are born, not made.

[Producer / Ken]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Come and see me sometime. A boy.

[Sailor / Minor Character]

Yeah.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I'll be fixed for the rest of a natural life.

[Curtain]

How about yourself?

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

What do you aim to be doing?

[Curtin]

Oh, I haven't got any idea.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, you're young yet. You. You got plenty of time to make three, four fortunes for yourselves.

[Curtin]

Well, you know, I'm really no worse off than I was back in Tampico. Not a couple hundred bucks, when you come right down to it. Not very much compared to what Dobsy lost.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Any special place you bet on going?

[Curtin]

Oh, places are the same to me.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

Oh, say, look, I'll tell you what. You can keep my share what the burrs and the hides will bring if you use the money to buy a ticket to Dallas. See, Cody's with it. You know, it's better than writing. Just tell her what happened.

[Curtin]

Okay, Pop.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

I'll go to Dallas. Hey, you, son. Come here. Tell your father to give this man all the hides in the burrs, and I'm going off of the engines. Well, you guess I'll round up my heathen brethren and we'll be on our way. Goodbye. Couldn't.

[Curtin]

Goodbye, Howard.

[Curtain]

Good luck.

[Narrator / Fred C. Dobbs]

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[Local / Indian Guide]

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