Originally posted by: Roger
We don't need no stink'in badges !
Thats what i said Outloud,as soon as i saw the Pic.
Great movie that is!
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
This, one of the funniest lines in cinema, certainly one of the most famous, is actually (as afficionados know) a misquote. What Alfonso Bedoya, who plays "Gold Hat," actually says, when he and his bandito friends are asked for their badges, is "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" I wonder if anybody at the time had any idea how funny this would hit audiences.
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Alfonso Bedoya
Born in Vicam, Sonora/Mexico
April 16, 1904
Died: December 15, 1957
I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
Biography
?Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!? With those words Alfonso Bedoya achieved screen immortality. His role as the Mexican bandit ?Gold Hat? in John Huston?s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre marked a departure for the actor who had previously appeared almost exclusively in the Mexican cinema. Born in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, Bedoya spent his teen years in Houston, Texas, before returning to Mexico. There he spent more than a decade appearing in Mexican films such as Canaima and La Perla. After appearing in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre in 1948, Bedoya made seventeen more films over the next decade including Streets of Laredo, Ten Wanted Men, and The Big Country. Unfortunately, the effects of hard drinking took its toll on the actor, and he died in Mexico City on December 15, 1957, at the age of only 53.
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