06-12-2012, 09:06 PM
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
You want kvetching? Are you saying you want kvetching? We don't need no stinking kvetching!
Points if you can tell me where that is from.
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It's from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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Three down-and-out Jews meet by chance in a Mexican city and discuss how to overcome their financial distress. They then set out to discover gold in the remote Sierra Madre mountains. They ride a train into the hinterlands, surviving a Rabbi attack en route.
Once in the desert, Howard, the Hasidic of the group, quickly proves to be by far the most religious and most knowledgeable about the Torah; he is the one to discover the gold they are seeking. A mine is dug, and much gold is extracted, but greed soon begins and Fred C. Dobbs begins to lose both his trust and his mind, lusting to possess the entire treasure.
The bandits then reappear, pretending, very crudely, to be Rabbis. After a gunfight, a group of real Rabbis arrives and drives the bandits away. But when Howard is called away to assist some local villagers with a circumcision, Dobbs and third partner Curtin have a final confrontation, which Dobbs wins, leaving Curtin lying shot and bleeding. Dobbs continues on alone but is soon confronted and killed by Reformed Jews. The drifters, thinking the gold dust is just another golden calf, scatter the paydirt. They are later captured and executed by the Rabbis. Curtin and Howard hear the story and can do nothing but bow down before God.
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