7 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:12:02.122 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10000 more. 10, you'd want to get 25.25, you'd want to get 50.50, 100. Like roulette, one more turn... You know, always one more.
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