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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


Howard (Walter Huston): As long as there's no find, the noble brotherhood will last. But when the piles of gold begin to grow, that's when the trouble starts.
Curtin (Tim Holt): Me now I wouldn't mind a little of that kind of trouble.
Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart): I think I'll go to sleep and dream about piles of gold getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall): You mean to tell me you never once suffered from piles? Well, it's the human condition. Most humans, anyhow. Like that ballplayer said, "The world's got two kind of folks. Them that's got the piles and them that's goin' get 'em." But you always was healthy as a ox. Passed on 'fore you could get the piles. Mm-hm. Ooh, thank the Lord you never was sick. I just want to pass away nice and peaceful. Go to sleep one night, wake up in the glory land!

"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" & "The Ladykillers" could also be seen as variations of Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale".
"Saucier", the name of the town where "The Ladykillers" takes place, resembles "Chaucer".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pardoner's_Tale

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