Why not try gold digging for a change? Well, it ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break.

— Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)

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5 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:18:34.130 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Let's beat it before the law arrives.

- Here's for the drinks and the use of the cantina.

- You know something, Curt? What? We ain't very smart, hanging around Tampico waiting for a job.

- The money's getting shorter every day, and pretty soon we're right back where we were: on the bum again, pushing guys for dimes and sleeping around in freight cars.

- 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? Well, it ain't any riskier than waiting around here for a break.

- And this is the country where the nuggets of gold are just crying for you to take them out of the ground, make them shine in coins, on the fingers and necks of swell dames.

- One thing, living in the open's cheaper than it is here in Tampico. Our money would last longer.

- Sure. 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, all right.

- He's too old to take along with us, of course. We'd have to pack him on our backs.

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