Temple formally introduced McCloud to the white-hatted lobby reader and the bartender as the veteran commander of his son during he war, screams were heard from Gaye during a commotion upstairs.When young Jason was pushed off the end of he dock, drowning while thrashing around, Lori ran and tried to save him: "Give me your hand.He fulfilled his destiny as a 'young prince' - and eventually ascended to become the leader of the herd - a magnificent stag or buck - like his father before him.This was Huston's first post-war film.One of the film's posters clarified he theme: "The Nearer They Get to Their Treasure, the Farther They Get From the Law!"After the group 'strikes it rich' in the Sierra Madre Mountains, warnings from a crazy but sage old prospector (Walter Huston) about the ways that gold makes a person suspicious and avaricious fall on the deaf ears of a mean, wary and sneering Dobbs (Bogart) - and he meets his just and greedy end at the hands of local bandits.