One of the most well-known lines from a Western is widely misquoted: “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” Actually, in the 1948 classic “The Treasure of the Sierria Madre”, the Mexican bandit leader (Alfonso Bedoya) tries to convince Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) that he and his men are Federales. Dobbs asks “If you’re the police, where are your badges?” And the bandit replies, “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any
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