The movie's line "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" was voted as the #36 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100). Director John Huston had read the book The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven in 1936 and had always thought the material would make a great movie. Based on a nineteenth-century ballad by a German poet, Traven's book reminded Huston of his own adventures in the Mexican Cavalry. W ...[Read Story ]