A scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
Gold Hat

Hola, senor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police.

Dobbs

If you're the police, where are your badges?

Gold Hat

Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!

Dobbs

You'd better not come any closer.

Gold Hat

We aren't trying to do you any harm. Why don't you try to be a little more polite? Give us your gun and we'll leave you in peace.

Dobbs

I need my gun myself.

Gold Hat

Oh, throw that ol' iron over here. We'll pick it up and go on our way.

Dobbs

You go on your way without my gun and go quick!

Gold Hat

[Dobbs fires a warning shot with his rifle at Gold Hat, piercing a big hole in the top of the bandit's hat]

Look here, amigo. You got the wrong idea. We don't wanna get your gun fer nothin'. We wanna buy it. Look. I have a gold watch with a gold chain, made in your own country. The watch and the chain - they worth at least two hundred pesos - I 'change it fer yer gun. Y'better take it, thatsa good bizness for you!!

Dobbs

You keep your watch. I'll keep my gun!

Gold Hat

O, you keep it? You will keep it?? We won't get it?? I'LL SHOW YOU!!!
[Howard aims and blasts the gold watch] Note: the bolded line is ranked #36 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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