Revealing mistake: When Howard and Curtin chase Dobbs, they pass a dead donkey which is obviously breathing, and the rope used to tie its legs together is visible too.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett, Tim Holt
Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) is killed by the bandits. They take the donkeys and empty the bags of gold thinking that it's sand. The bandits try to sell the donkeys at the town where Dobbs, Curtin (Tim Holt) and Howard (Walter Huston) bought supplies and the donkeys when they started the search for gold. A local kid identifies the donkeys as the ones bought by the three treasure seekers and the bandits are arrested. Howard, Curtin and some of the locals (who treated Howard with great hospitality because he helped a boy who fell into a river) arrive at town and look for the bags of gold. When they see that the gold is being blown away by the wind, they laugh. Howard and Curtin go their separate ways and say good-bye to each other. Howard goes with the locals to continue living with them and Curtin goes to Dallas to pay a visit to Cody's wife.
Alex
More mistakes in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Gold Hat: We are the Federales... You know... The mounted police.
Dobbs: If you're the police, where are your badges?
Gold Hat: Badges?.. We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
Trivia: Director John Huston has a cameo as the white-suited man who gets increasingly irritated when Humphrey Bogart repeatedly begs him for money.
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