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[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Just to set the record straight on the "who to give credit to" for the "stinking badges" quote.

Attributing "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges", to the move The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart), is like attributing "Play it again, Sam" to Casablanca.

The actual line from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

The line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges." comes from the moive Blazing Saddles (directed by Mel Brooks), in obvious homage to/parody of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Correct you are. Of course, the first appearance of any variant of the line was in the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.(Published in 1927) According to Wikipedia, the quote reads:

""All right," Curtin shouted back. "If you are the police, where are your badges? Let's see them."

"Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don't need badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and ching' tu madre! Come out from that sh!t-hole of yours. I have to speak to you."