The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Directed by John Huston
Two broke Americans in Tampico team up with an old prospector and head inland by train to the mountains beyond Durango to dig for gold, where greed and bandits test them.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Tampico, Mexico≈ 00:01:00Stated on screen
Dobbs and Curtin are cheated out of oil-rig wages, meet Howard in a flophouse and pool money for a prospecting trip.
- 2Buying burros≈ 00:38:00Durango, MexicoStated on screen
They outfit in Durango and head into the mountains.
- 3Gold camp in the Sierra Madre (fictional)≈ 00:42:00InferredFictional
Howard finds gold, the three work the claim, and an outsider and Gold Hat's bandits turn up.
- 4Indian village in the Sierra Madre (fictional)≈ 01:33:00InferredFictional
- 5Waterhole outside town≈ 01:43:00Durango, MexicoInferred
- 6Indian village in the Sierra Madre (fictional)≈ 01:50:00InferredFictional
- 7Dust storm≈ 01:56:00Durango, MexicoStated on screen
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 1,209 km
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 7
- Train: 723 km
- On foot: 289 km
- Not shown: 197 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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