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.
— Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)
12 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:33:11.975 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- 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.
- You're learnin'. Pretty soon, I won't be able to tell you a thing.
- How much do you figure it to be now?
- Oh... About $5000 worth, I reckon.
- When are we going to start dividing it up?
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