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about cain Award-winn 'Sierra Madr here next w< By CHUCK CROMER Gamecock Staff Writer One of the greatest American films, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the Russell House Theatre. Admission is free to USC students with an ID. The film, made in 1947, stars Humphrey Bogart--in one of his greatest roles--Walter Huston, Tim Holt and Bruce Bennett. John Huston won two Academy Awards for directing and writing the movie and Walter Huston, John Huston's father, captured a third as best supporting actor for his remarkable performance. The film won a New York Film Critics' award for Folk singer Chuck Mitchell offered students more than just a stage performance last week in the form of an artist in residency program. Mit chell conducted guitar workshops and also visited classes to discuss such things as apathy, the en vironment and } music. $ @8m0e. IPUS ing e' .,.ek Tim Holt, Hu Treasure of t the year's best picture and to John Huston for best direction. Humphrey Bogart gives an amazing performance as Fred C. Dobbs, a somewhat neurotic American bum who evolves into a demonlike paranoid schizophrenic. Dobbs is a born loser with no potential for reform. Suspicious, un feeling, savage and easily corruptible, he seems destined for a tragic fate. WALTER HUSTON plays Howard, an old, seemingly, crazy prospector that keeps reminescing about the gold fortunes he has had and lost in the past and the one's he dreams about in the future. Howard's craziness is only superficial though, as he possesses an experience insight into man's fanaticism for gold. BUS People sta band's prod< Hankinson, team, was in its a scienti moderate ai sleep." Hari day, disapp4 need a little Several ta many peop preparation student head inside with acoustics he "IT'S EN drugs," intoi According operation, thi was caused 1 another part: Hampton Bu The origina and was re-a date. The di supply two j conflict, ther< trucks. "I've neve k stffP ,s by. Wesrdubrm everybody w what am I ga en mphrey Bogart and Walter Huston discuss g be Sierra Madre." Howard is constantly aware of Bogart's swift-personal decline and greedy lust for gold and fully expects him to commit some form of treachery before their gold quest is fulfilled. However, Huston seems to be quite calm about the impending disaster, contenting himself with the thril of the hunt. Life can not surprise him anymore and he just accepts its dictates. Tim Holt rounds out this gold hungry group as Curtin, a man who becomes tempted by his gold fever but whose conscience will not permit him to exercise his desires. In essence, Holt portrays the American ideal in this movie, where he is young, inexperienced, trustworthy, yet unable to cope with the ruthlessness of man as expressed in the character of a Fred C. Dobbs. Af From Page One repe waili outtU peri( rted loosening up, dancing at the cuss ling and fighting the lines. Mike not 1 ;tarting fullback on USC's soccer good spirits and offered, "Y'know, "C fic fact that beer consumed in decl nounts gives you a good night's hav kinson, who had a game the next d&nt rared into the crowd, saying, "I nigh more moderation." s were running low, however, and findi le were getting angry. "The the for this thing is rotten," growled a couli ling for the exit. "It's a lot better stan more taps, and the lighting and re are terrible." In barte ()UGH to make ya wanna do was ied someone else. He e to Pete Feheley, in charge of the tap I a primary reason for the confusion and y having to share the beer with ferec r being held simultaneously in the ilding. T al bust was cancelled due to rain, ef cheduled for the earliest possible stan stributor was therefore forced to cam arties at once in the face of the onto Bby depriving Feheley of two beer into bani bliss r had one of these things where Wl as satisfied," Feheley said, "but flopj mnna dlo?" trin. tertainment WarOer as Inc. old fever over dinner in "The THERE ARE some other notes of in terest for the nostalgia hunters. Robert Blake, of TV "Baretta" fame, has a small part as a Mexican boy who sells a raffle ticket to Bogart. John Huston, the director in a cameo role, plays a wealthy American who keeps getting stung by Bogart for a free meal in the film's beginning. Also, a scene from the movie concerning Mexican bandits and "stinking badges," satirized in Mel Brooks' film, Blazing Saddles, is featured. James Agee,. probably the greatest film critic, once wrote about The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: "I doubt we shall ever see a film more masculine in style; or a truer movie un derstanding of character and of men ter a break, Swamp Fox came back and ated their opening number. "Oh my God," ed one of the disillusioned, "they've run i songs, too." Members of the band dically invited the audience to take turns ing out Georgia on the mike, but that did )hase some visiting Bulldog fans. AROLINA'S gotta lousy football team," ared a Georgia student, "but they sure do some nice chicks." Said a girl amid the ing mass who had a gleam in her eyes all t, "I sure do like these odds."' the night dragged to a close, people were ng it much easier to get beer. The lines to bathroom were thickening. Those who I not make it climbed to the tops of the dts. the wake of the flood, so to speak, one mnder related a tale of woe. "Everybody acting like animals, including the girls." xplained how the lines clogged up after a >roke, how a student crashed over a table poured his own, and how several girls of I to exchange themselves for a full cup. IOUGH THE bust ended at midnight, its :tts were felt long afterwards. In one in ce, an enlightened person returin to pus on a chartered bus flun his cup of be a car pssing alongside.The car smacked the vehcle in front of it with a resounding g, but the busload of merrymen moved on in ful ignorance, Niether the party was a success or if It >ed like a hound dog's ears, it was a real at lat.