I saw this movie for the first time a few days ago just after the March 2020 market crash. All I could think about during this laugh track was the ticker candles dropping. "Worth 10 months of suffering and labor this joke is!" lol
A little before this movie Walter Huston went all out to do a magnificent Othello in New York on stage. It was going to be his crowning achievement. When the theater reviews came in he read one after another, his face going white, his lips trembling....they lambasted, ridiculed and attacked his performance with total abandon. His son John was there and he had never seen his father so crushed. He held up the newspapers in both his hands (just the way he holds the empty gold bags in the movie) and then he laughed at himself like mad and all his pretensions. John told him to laugh like that time you read your review of Othello.
Curtin: "You know the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens- not half as bad as you figure it'll be it before it happens." Sadly, many of us live lives dreading a possible failure and subsequent disgrace that when it does come we realize how we've vastly over judged its negative impact. Howard knew he had to give Curtin, a young directionless and lost fellow who had soured on life ( "All the places's the same to me"), something to believe in and look forward to. Don't we all want to imagine a scene where Curtin approaches the orchard with a renewed purpose.
@@wygtam Wait, what? Walter was in that same 1945 movie "And Then There Were None" which I've probably watched more than 7 times? ... OK, I looked it up, and he was Doctor Armstrong. No, I had no idea it was him.
@@101Volts If you watch "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston, there's a scene where the Captain of the La Paloma stumbles into Sam Spade's office and collapses onto a couch clutching a package. He is almost completely in shadows for the entire time except for one brief moment. It wasn't until I watched it on a large screen TV, that I realized it was Walter Huston in a cameo.
it was the first film i ever saw....... i was only 7 years old......funny, i remember it like it was yesterday......i am in my 80's and i just can't get over this feeling.....a life long passion for films followed, i stopped watching films in 1980's ......they were just pale imitations of golden years of excellence .....
3:11 This scene is a cinematic treasure , a gift that keeps on giving to the viewer , with the power to blow away the cobwebs of depression and doldrum, Walter Houston's laughter is universally contagious, all the more so after witnessing all the struggle , hardship , and mortal danger the three went through to amass this small booty of gold dust . A philosophical statement on the uncertainty and fickle nature of human endeavor , ..... this hilarious climax is simply brilliant, ..... ,fills me with such deep gratitude for Houston's portrayal and depth of understanding re life's ironies ,his laughter is so full of joy and delight , always end up laughing and crying together - thank you, Thank you, thank you!!!!!!!! 😊 perhaps Mr Houston's greatest gift to all fortunate enough to witness this climactic conclusion 😂
you do not become a bandito because you are intelligent. they even had gotten away with loot from the train but could not control themselves enough to avoid attracting attention in town, a town not far from the robbery.
In a way you're right, it's not funny since they've spent almost a year slaving away in the desert, almost died several times and ultimately lost everything they worked so hard to achieve. But they're still alive and in a funny way things still sort of worked out for them: Howard is set for life as a medicine man and Curtin has an opportunity to move onto (hopefully) greener pastures with the widow in Dallas. It's one of those situations where all you can really do is laugh, accept it all as a hard lesson and move on. Getting angry won't bring back the gold, and compared to Dobbs I'd say they both got off pretty lightly.
Those two films have the greatest laughing scenes ever; two for Treasure, three for Wild Bunch. No others can even come close. Plus, they're two of the greatest film creations.
If that is true about God giving and then taking, then it would have to be less likely for him to take away if you did the work yourself and didn't rely on him to give it to you, because if God is a being with intelligence and the ability to think and reason like us, then surely even God would be able to see the difference between him giving something, and someone getting something themselves by them doing it themselves instead of having it given to them. So if God decided to take something away from one of us, it would have to be less likely that he'd do it to the person who relied on themselves to get what they got, and that he'd be more likely to do it to the person who he gave that thing to.
That movie was probably set at a time when economic conditions in the USA led unemployed Americans to seek a living in Mexico. Today, it's the other way around. The heirs of the bandidos are now engaged in drug and human trafficking and they either murder the Mexican police (and any Mexican who opposes them) and they corrupt the police and government. I've never read the novel but I've heard that author B. Traven hung around the set to make sure the movie met his standards. Judging by his view of American businessmen and the soul destroying power of greed, I'd say B. Traven was a Marxist. I don't know if the movie ending was the same as the ending in the novel, but I'll bet Traven was happy with it. I love this movie for what it is. I don't mind Marxists as long as they don't bore me.
The final scene with a denouement and Huston's all-time greatest 10 seconds-gold dance, are indeed unforgettable.
Wonder how much of that laughter from them was real. Genuine or not, it's so contagious. What a great ending for a film.
The characters' laughter was real!
Walter Huston in real life had a contagious over the top laugh and sense of humor.
yes i joined in the laughter .
Another reason this is the greatest American film. One of the best final scenes ever.
I saw this movie for the first time a few days ago just after the March 2020 market crash. All I could think about during this laugh track was the ticker candles dropping.
"Worth 10 months of suffering and labor this joke is!" lol
A little before this movie Walter Huston went all out to do a magnificent Othello in New York on stage.
It was going to be his crowning achievement. When the theater reviews came in he read one after another, his face going white, his lips trembling....they lambasted, ridiculed and attacked his performance with total abandon. His son John was there and he had never seen his father so crushed. He held up the newspapers in both his hands (just the way he holds the empty gold bags in the movie) and then he laughed at himself like mad and all his pretensions. John told him to laugh like that time you read your review of Othello.
Curtin: "You know the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens- not half as bad as you figure it'll be it before it happens." Sadly, many of us live lives dreading a possible failure and subsequent disgrace that when it does come we realize how we've vastly over judged its negative impact. Howard knew he had to give Curtin, a young directionless and lost fellow who had soured on life ( "All the places's the same to me"), something to believe in and look forward to. Don't we all want to imagine a scene where Curtin approaches the orchard with a renewed purpose.
Wonderful, cathartic ending to a great movie.
Well said!
Maybe the greatest ending in all of cinema.
Casablanca excluded, of course!
It's beautiful
NOTHING BEATS PULP FICTION DUDE!
@@walterwhite1 very good movie indeed, this is very good too
@@walterwhite1pulp fiction is reddit
Commendable attitude from Curtin! Dobbs tried to murder him and left him for dead, and he still finds it in his heart to feel sorry for him!
02:24 "You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened."
I was laughing and crying at the same time when I saw this..... it was great :P
it`s simple and plainly maybe one of the greatest endings of all time, ironic and true to life!
Walter Huston is a great actor.
If you watched "And Then There Were None", from about the same time, you'd never realize that it was the same actor in both.
He was the Daniel Day Lewis of his time.
@@wygtam Wait, what? Walter was in that same 1945 movie "And Then There Were None" which I've probably watched more than 7 times? ... OK, I looked it up, and he was Doctor Armstrong. No, I had no idea it was him.
@@101Volts If you watch "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston, there's a scene where the Captain of the La Paloma stumbles into Sam Spade's office and collapses onto a couch clutching a package. He is almost completely in shadows for the entire time except for one brief moment. It wasn't until I watched it on a large screen TV, that I realized it was Walter Huston in a cameo.
The gold has gone back to where we found it!!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
this ending is goddamn legendary
Definetly agree with you! For me, this clip left off several last key seconds. Huston's final glance at Dobbs was so meaningful, it was epic.
Ugh
Howard nailed it 😊 ... The Lord is the greatest comedian ever ... Just like Howard, all you have to do is appreciate his sense of humor ...
there are times in life where all that's left to do is laugh
Perfect ending to a near perfect film! Should have won the Best Picture Oscar in 1948!🤨🎞️🎬🎥🏜️💰⛏️
What won?
It did win two---Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.
Only time a father and son won Oscars on the same picture.
@walterwhite1 laurence olivier's hamlet.....not a bad choice
ALWAYS been my favorite movie ending
Dobbs laughed his head off!
I see what ya did there. LOL.
😂
@@MWorsaDobb’s head was cut off and rolled into the water, but that scene was edited out. Too graphic for the time.
@@bobbylee2853 I got the reference 😁
That drives me crazy how they lose all the gold at the end.
it was the first film i ever saw....... i was only 7 years old......funny, i remember it like it was yesterday......i am in my 80's and i just can't get over this feeling.....a life long passion for films followed, i stopped watching films in 1980's ......they were just pale imitations of golden years of excellence .....
3:11 This scene is a cinematic treasure , a gift that keeps on giving to the viewer , with the power to blow away the cobwebs of depression and doldrum, Walter Houston's laughter is universally contagious, all the more so after witnessing all the struggle , hardship , and mortal danger the three went through to amass this small booty of gold dust . A philosophical statement on the uncertainty and fickle nature of human endeavor , ..... this hilarious climax is simply brilliant, ..... ,fills me with such deep gratitude for Houston's portrayal and depth of understanding re life's ironies ,his laughter is so full of joy and delight , always end up laughing and crying together - thank you, Thank you, thank you!!!!!!!! 😊 perhaps Mr Houston's greatest gift to all fortunate enough to witness this climactic conclusion 😂
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Amen
Blow me Lord.
@@bobbylee2853 he wil, you away
I'd take that lesson, it's a good one.
This is worth ten months of suffering and labor this joke is! 😂🎉😂
Great finish to a marvellous movie!😆🤠👍⛏️⚖️💰🇲🇽
its all dust mate . always has been . love the ending of this movie - sadly only watched it recently for the first time .
Absolutely Sam Peckinpah saw this movie and was inspired for the depiction of the characters in The Wild Bunch.
This sure proves the old saying "you have to laugh to keep from crying".
and those guys behind don't need no stinkin badges either
Blown back to where it came from a valuable lesson from nature!😆🤣⛏️⛏️⚖️⚖️💰💰🏜️🌬️
I love this man.....❤😊
You know, much as I hate the idea of remaking something I wonder if someone could remake this is a little more focus on the slow burn of madness
you do not become a bandito because you are intelligent. they even had gotten away with loot from the train but could not control themselves enough to avoid attracting attention in town, a town not far from the robbery.
Just don't tell his widow you were the deciding vote to kill him 😢
such a great movie.
Walter White in the crawl space.
hey old man, whats so funny ? all that hard work gone, the gold all gone , no money. what the hell is so funny ?
In a way you're right, it's not funny since they've spent almost a year slaving away in the desert, almost died several times and ultimately lost everything they worked so hard to achieve. But they're still alive and in a funny way things still sort of worked out for them: Howard is set for life as a medicine man and Curtin has an opportunity to move onto (hopefully) greener pastures with the widow in Dallas. It's one of those situations where all you can really do is laugh, accept it all as a hard lesson and move on. Getting angry won't bring back the gold, and compared to Dobbs I'd say they both got off pretty lightly.
The laughter is WAY overdone. It might be all he could do, but he wouldn't laugh like THAT.
Pretty good reactive acting by Curtin.
Wrap it up with dang-good philosophy. I like it. Warrants watching again.
Laughing at fate ending very similar 30 years later in "The Wild Bunch."
PS: oops, I meant 20 years later.
Those two films have the greatest laughing scenes ever; two for Treasure, three for Wild Bunch. No others can even come close. Plus, they're two of the greatest film creations.
You don't get gold dusk from a mine. Only nuggets that are small rocks. Don't blow in the wind... But good movie
Wonderful
The Wild Bunch vibes
Really sad for two 😭😭😭😭
Hope everyone who's lost all their money has the same attitude.
Do not chase money.
Especially when it's extremely windy,
@@JoyneFreedom 🤗
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Begin again...tonight.
The love of $$$ is the root of all Evil
If that is true about God giving and then taking, then it would have to be less likely for him to take away if you did the work yourself and didn't rely on him to give it to you, because if God is a being with intelligence and the ability to think and reason like us, then surely even God would be able to see the difference between him giving something, and someone getting something themselves by them doing it themselves instead of having it given to them. So if God decided to take something away from one of us, it would have to be less likely that he'd do it to the person who relied on themselves to get what they got, and that he'd be more likely to do it to the person who he gave that thing to.
That movie was probably set at a time when economic conditions in the USA led unemployed Americans to seek a living in Mexico. Today, it's the other way around. The heirs of the bandidos are now engaged in drug and human trafficking and they either murder the Mexican police (and any Mexican who opposes them) and they corrupt the police and government. I've never read the novel but I've heard that author B. Traven hung around the set to make sure the movie met his standards. Judging by his view of American businessmen and the soul destroying power of greed, I'd say B. Traven was a Marxist. I don't know if the movie ending was the same as the ending in the novel, but I'll bet Traven was happy with it. I love this movie for what it is. I don't mind Marxists as long as they don't bore me.
first gold doesn t blow away in the wind like they suggest and gold is 19 times heavier than water and the bandits coould nt tell lol
It was gold dust, not nuggets.
Loved this movie but hated the ending. The old man is laughing because he's set for life.
So is Curtin in a way, he’s forever a friend of the Medicine man and can live the high life at any point he wishes.
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Wonderful, cathartic ending to a great movie.
+Louis King I agree. Was it in the book or a Huston idea? John Poole