The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a superb film, one of Bogey's best, and is an all-time classic, but it is NOT a Western, as I keep seeing it pop up on lists as one of the greatest Westerns (AFI, anyone?) Is anybody else bothered by this, or am I the only one? It's set in 1925, for Pete's sake!
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I would consider it more an adventure movie than a true Western.
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Broadly a Western has to do with problems and challenges encountered during the westward settlement in the United States in the 19th century. A Western can take place in the early 20th century but those movies are usually "end of the era" type of Westerns. Typically Westerns involve horses, wagon trains, steam trains, cowboys, Indians, trappers, trailblazers, cavalry, miners, sodbusters, cattlemen, sheep men, outlaws, lawmen, and/or gunfights. But just because a movie has a horse, a cow, a train, a mine, an outlaw, a lawman or a gunfight does not make it a Western.
shareExcept that most of the movie occurs in daylight, there are three main characters rather than one, and there is no voice over narration, it could be a film noire. I think mostly I think of it as noire because of what happens to Dobbsie.
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Very good movie - 8.5
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It is an adventure story that takes place in the outdoors in the North American west. It is, among other things, a western. A western can take place in 1875 or 1975. The time period is irrelevant.
shareI agree that the time period isn´t that relevant as long as it has western elements but it takes place in Mexico.
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