The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Page #4

[Glass shattering]

[Both groaning]

[Dobbs grunting]

[All grunting]

[McCormick panting]

McCORMICK:
I'm licked, boys.

CURTIN:
Give us our money.

DOBBS:
Yeah, give us our money.

[Groaning]

I can't see.

[Sighing]

$50. $100.

$200.

$300.

DOBBS:
That's it, ain't it, Curt?

CURTIN:
Yeah, that's it.

CURTIN:
Let's beat it

before the law arrives.

DOBBS:
Here's for the drinks

and the use of the cantina.

DOBBS:
You know something, Curt?

CURTIN:
What?

We ain't very smart,

hanging around Tampico waiting for a job.

Money's getting shorter every day...

and soon we'll be right back

where we were, on the bum again...

pushing guys for dimes,

sleeping around in freight cars.

CURTIN:
That's right. Got any ideas?

Yeah.

That old man in the Oso Negro

started me to thinking.

What about?

Why not try gold-digging for a change?

It ain't any riskier

than waiting around here for a break...

and this is the country where the nuggets

of gold are crying for you...

to take them out of the ground,

make them shinin' coins...

on the fingers and necks of swell dames.

One thing, living in the open is cheaper

than it is here in Tampico.

Our money'd last longer.

The longer it lasts, the greater our chance

of digging something up would be.

We'd have to have equipment, all right.

Picks and spades, pans, burros.

Wonder how much it would all cost.

- That old man would know.

- Yeah, he could give us some pointers.

DOBBS:
He's too old to take along.

We'd have to pack him on our backs.

You can't tell

about some of those old guys.

It's surprising sometimes

how tough they are.

I don't know what gold looks like

in the ground.

I've only seen it in jewelry store windows

and people's mouths.

You know anything about prospecting?

Not much when you come right down to it.

We might have real use

for an experienced guy like that old-timer.

Let's go hunt him up right away.

Will I go? What a question.

Of course I'll go.

Any time, any day,

I was waiting for somebody to ask me.

Out for gold? I'm always at your service.

I got $300 ready cash in the bank.

$200 of it all set to invest.

Last money I got.

When it's gone, I'm finished.

If you don't take a risk,

you can't make a gain.

How much dough you guys got to put in?

I've got $150 and Curtin's got the same.

$500 ain't hardly enough to buy tools,

weapons and essential provisions.

What do we need weapons for?

Meat's one thing and bandits another.

Bandit country's where we'd be going.

We need $600 between us.

DOBBS:
That much?

HOWARD:
Can't you dig up any more?

DOBBS:
Not a red cent.

[Boy calls Dobbs in Spanish]

Give me my money, seor!

10/o I get for selling the winning ticket.

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