Never read this before. Very enjoyable. Can see its appeal to Huston. Film follows it mostly but all the changes are good. We don't find out what happened to the Bruce Bennett character - he stays digging. Lots of emphasis on the hard work the people do. Dobbs only goes nuts at the end. His head it cut off! Lovely interwining of fate. Vicious criticism of the effect of the Catholic Church.
There's a sequence where we meet the bandits... they wipe out a whole train carriage, men, women, children, babies. Full on. The soldiers are ruthless. It's quite sympathetic to Mexico - it seems the writer lived there.
I enjoyed this a lot.
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