(John Huston, US 1948, 126 min., 35mm)
There is no more perfect study of avarice gone to obsession and paranoia than Huston's story of a threesome — Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Huston's father Walter — hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, where they come face-to-face with bandits, federales, and their own basest instincts. In one of his finest roles, Bogart reveals here the brittleness and menace his 1940s characters barely held in check. This film led to the first time a father and son received Oscars for the same film — two to John for direction and screenplay, one for dad as best supporting actor. Bogart’s mother, illustrator Maud Humphrey, was a Rochester native and she and husband Belmont Bogart purchased an estate on Seneca Point in 1899 when she was pregnant with Humphrey. The family would summer on the lake until 1916, when they sold the property.