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.

- 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.

- You're learnin'. Pretty soon, I won't be able to tell you a thing.

- Tank full yet?

- Right to the top.

- Open the sluice gate.

- How much do you figure it to be now?

- Oh... About $5000 worth, I reckon.

- When are we going to start dividing it up?

- Anytime you say.

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