- Wouldn't it be easier to file a claim?
- Easier maybe, but not so profitable.

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

You can hear this line at 00:32:46.575 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- It don't glitter. I thought it would glitter.

- Oh, it'll glitter when it's refined. That's some other guy's job. All we got to do is mine it and get it back there.

- You know, gold ain't like stones in a river bed. It don't cry out to be picked up. You got to know how to recognize it. And finding it ain't all... not by a long shot. You got to know how to tickle it so she'll come out laughing.

- Yeah, it's mighty rich. It'll pay good.

- How good?

- Oh, about 20 ounce to the ton.

- That's some $20 an ounce.

- How many tons can we handle a week? Depends on how hard we work.

- We'd better pitch our camp down the mountainside a bit.

- Why do that when the digging's up here?

- In case anybody happens by, we can tell them we're hunters and get away with it, maybe.

- Wouldn't it be easier to file a claim?

- Easier maybe, but not so profitable.

- Wouldn't be no time till a man from one of those big mining companies would be up here with a paper in his hand showing we had no right to be here.

- Well? How does it feel, you fellas, to be men of property?

- The tanks will leak some at first till the boards begin to swell and close the seams.

- Yeah, I sure had some cockeyed ideas about prospecting for gold. It was all in the finding, I thought. I thought all you had to do was find it, pick it up, put it in sacks, and carry them off to the nearest bank.

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