弗雷德（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）和鲍勃（提姆·霍尔特 Tim Holt 饰）是两名穷困潦倒的流浪汉，一日，在酒吧中，他们从精明智慧的霍华德（沃尔特·休斯顿 Walter Huston 饰）口中听闻了有关金矿的消息，走投无路的两人打起了淘金的主意，他们谎称是猎人，驻扎在了山上。经历了种种苦难的挫折，幸运的三人找到了金矿。然而，随着金砂数量的增加，原本相互信任的三人之间出现了裂痕。
在一次下山采购的过程中，名叫科迪（布鲁斯·班尼特 Bruce Bennett 饰）的年轻人发现了他们秘密，跟随而来的科迪表示想要从中分一杯羹，三人决定杀之而后快。就在这个节骨眼上，一群土匪开始向山上进发，他们想要的是这三个“猎人”狩猎得到的“兽皮”。在种种阴谋和贪婪本性的趋势下，本来有着美好前景的三人走向的破灭的结局。

I have just seen this movie for the 12-15th time and I still find something extraordinarily fascinating every time I watch it. This movie is based on a novel by Venezuela's Romulo Gallegos one of Latin America best writer. The movie is so profound, because you can see so many aspects of the human being in it. You can find hate, witchcraft, religion, love, impotency and repentance, mainly because of the ignorance of people. This movie develops in the great Venezuela Savannahs, where the law of the stronger prevailed. The dialogs, so strong and captivating, are possible due to Gallegos very strong command of the Spanish Language and the slang of the peasants of that region. As I have mentioned before for a couple of other movies, this one is best appreciated if you understand Spanish. I may see it again another dozen times, and I am sure I would still enjoy it, as I hope you may too. This movie is officially rated as the 75th in importance in the Mexican Cinematography, to which I TOTALLY DISAGREE.

Armendáriz was terrific in this. I won't repeat the praises from prior reviews, I concur.
My only problem with this film is that it wasn't true to the revolution. In that sense, it was indeed a Fernandez film as neither was he true to the revolution. He gave a Cristero slant to the issues of Church/State and redistribution of wealth. Just take it as a love story set in the revolutionary period and try to ignore the political bias. Jeeze, you'd think he'd have shown more gratitude having been pardoned by Lázaro Cárdenas for his treason.
Pedro Armendáriz, María Felix and the town of Cholula were the great stars of this film. The exteriors were certainly shot in Cholula.
There were some snippets of revolutionary period music (La Adelita and El Tren) and an anachronistic performance of Malageña Salerosa when he had mariachi serenade María Felix. That song is so lovely, I didn't mind.

1949 film by Emilio Fernández

1953 film by Ismael Rodríguez

1951 film by Emilio Fernández

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.

1948 film by Emilio Fernández

Historical drama about the period just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.