3 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:11:58.560 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some 20 bucks an ounce?
- I don't know. Because it's scarce.
- 1000 men, say, go searching for gold. After 6 months, one of them's lucky... One out of the 1000. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of 999 others to boot.
- That's 6000 months, or 500 years, scrabbling over mountains, going hungry and thirsty.
- An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding and the getting of it.
- Never thought of it just like that.
- There's no other explanation, mister.
- Gold itself ain't good for nothing except for making jewelry with, gold teeth.
- Gold's a devilish sort of a thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25000 handsome smackers worth of it. So help my lord and cross my heart.
- Fine resolution.
- After months of sweating yourself dizzy and growing short on provisions and finding nothing, you finally come down to 15000, then 10. Finally, you say, lord, let me just find $5000 worth and I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life.
- $5000 is a lot of money.
- Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot, but, I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away.
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