Via Starwars.com:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 film of cultural and historical significance that won two Oscars for its writer/director, John Huston, a titan of cinema and the man behind many of Humphrey Bogart’s best movies. His movies were so influential as a whole that it would easy to look at them all and say that they influenced all cinema, including Star Wars, that came after them. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is no exception.

And it could only be made by a filmmaker of John Huston’s caliber. He’s the same master that once called George Lucas (and Steven Spielberg, in the same statement) “inventive as hell… he’s an ordinary man with an extraordinary expression.”

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tells the story of a trio of prospectors working to strike it rich, hoping to find gold in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. It would be easy to dismiss this as having nothing to do with Star Wars and anyone to call anyone who read it as an influence to the saga as crazy, but I’m here to say, “Not so fast.”

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