Hey, if there was gold in them mountains, how long would it have been there? Millions and millions of years, wouldn't it? What's our hurry? Couple of days more or less ain't gonna make any difference.

— Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)

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

You can hear this line at 00:26:08.117 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What's all that about?

- We're going to a country very wild and dangerous. Have to cut away through jungles and climb mountains so high, they rise above the clouds.

- The tigers so big and strong, they can climb trees with burros in their mouths.

- Good. Glad to hear such tall tales, 'cause that means mighty few outsiders have ever set foot there.

- Well, let's get going.

- Hey, if there was gold in them mountains, how long would it have been there? Millions and millions of years, wouldn't it? What's our hurry? Couple of days more or less ain't gonna make any difference.

- Remember what you said back in Tampico about having to pack that old man on our backs?

- That was when I took him for an ordinary human being, not part goat. Look at him climb, will you?

- What gets me is how he can go all day long in this sun without any water.

- Maybe he's part camel, too.

- If I'd known what prospecting meant, I'd have stayed in Tampico and waited for another job to turn up.

- Hey.

- What's the matter?

- Look. Look at it glitter. It's yellow, too, like... like... gold.

[...]

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