I only saw this one time. It was enough for me. For the acting alone - and for Walter Huston - I would give it five stars but no stars for anything else.
Maybe it's just me, but watching a paranoid, greedy, whiny person act nasty for an hour toward two innocent good guys is is not my idea of entertainment, whether it's Humphrey Bogart (here, as "Fred C. Dobbs") or Elmer Fudd playing the lead.
The only actor I enjoyed watching was Huston, which is no surprise. I always found him fascinating in whoever he played on film.
Then again, I might have put up with this story better had it been a little shorter, but 120 minutes of this was too much. I really believe this is one of those movies that critics have made it far more than it really is, meaning vastly overrated. I like Bogart in many films, but not here.
Maybe it's just me, but watching a paranoid, greedy, whiny person act nasty for an hour toward two innocent good guys is is not my idea of entertainment, whether it's Humphrey Bogart (here, as "Fred C. Dobbs") or Elmer Fudd playing the lead.
The only actor I enjoyed watching was Huston, which is no surprise. I always found him fascinating in whoever he played on film.
Then again, I might have put up with this story better had it been a little shorter, but 120 minutes of this was too much. I really believe this is one of those movies that critics have made it far more than it really is, meaning vastly overrated. I like Bogart in many films, but not here.