“Meat's one thing and bandit's another. Bandit country is where we'll...” – Howard, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948

Howard Walter Huston

Meat's one thing and bandit's another. Bandit country is where we'll be going. We ought to have six hundred bucks between us.

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Howard We gotta go where there's no trails at all - where you can be positive that no surveyor or anybody who knows anything about prospectin' has ever been there before. Howard Now here's where we're bound for - hereabouts. It don't show properly whether it's mountain, swamp, or desert. That shows the makers of the map themselves don't know for sure. Now once on the ground, all we got to do is open our eyes and look around. Yeah, and blow our noses too. Believe it or not, I knew a feller once who could smell gold just like a jackass can smell water. Howard We're going into the country that's very wild and dangerous. Have to cut our way through jungles and climb mountains so high that rise above the clouds. With 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.