On the Social Nature of the Value of Gold (or that of any commodity): ( https://groups.io/g/marxmail/On the Value of Gold (or that of any commodity): )
Director John Huston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre "screens on TCM this Saturday at 5:45 PM ET. Beyond his father, Walter, playing a lead role as Howard, an old grizzled veteran prospector, John Huston makes 2 cameos appearances, in the film, being 'touched' by Bogart's character, Fed C Dobbs.. >From the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boUD5eG9Bf4 Three down-on-their-luck Americans try to scrape up the necessary 'fixings' to go on a hunt for gold led by an old prospector (Walter Huston as Walter Huston says to the other two, "Real bonanzas are few and far between.They take a lot of finding Answerme this one, will ya? Why is gold worth some 20 bucks an ounce?" Tim Holt-I don't know. Because it's scarce? Huston-"A thousand men, say, go searching for gold.After 6 months, one of 'ems lucky. One out of a thousand. This one represents not only his own labor but that of the other 999 others to boot. That's, er, 6000 months, that's 500 years scrabbling over a mountain, going hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, Mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding of it and the getting of it." "I never thought of it just like that." "There's no other explanation, Mister." Mister, there's no other explanation. As an aside, Fred C Dobbs ( https://www.google.com/search?q=fred+c+dobbs+treasure&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=f2adb3232492c0ce&sxsrf=ACQVn0_Uy3TU9ajBoEl3H5OIiv6ataUDYQ%3A1712375097558&ei=OcUQZqTiIZ-iur8P47qvgAc&ved=0ahUKEwjk4qWr1qyFAxUfke4BHWPdC3AQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=fred+c+dobbs+treasure&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAaAhgCIhVmcmVkIGMgZG9iYnMgdHJlYXN1cmUyBhAAGBYYHkiZNVDGEFiSMnABeAGQAQCYAW-gAYoHqgEDNC41uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIKoAK5B8ICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAg0QABiABBiKBRhDGLADwgIREC4YgAQYiwMY8AMYqAMYpAPCAgUQABiABMICLxAuGIAEGIsDGPADGKgDGKQDGJcFGNwEGN4EGOAEGPQDGPEDGPUDGPYDGPcD2AEBmAMAiAYBkAYEugYGCAEQARgUkgcDNC42oAfSGw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp ) was Bogart's name in the movie. In the '90's there was a late blooming 'nag' named Fred C Dobbs that raced at Hollywood Park (and Santa Anita). https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=4293375®istry=T&rbt=TB >From the wiki on its novel origins: << *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* ( German ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language ) : Der Schatz der Sierra Madre ) is a 1927 adventure novel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_novel ) by German author B. Traven ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven ) , whose identity remains unknown. [1] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre#cite_note-1 ) In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join an older American prospector in a search for gold ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ). John Huston ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huston ) adapted the book as a 1948 film of the same name ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film) ).>> JAI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29808): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29808 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105361981/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
