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* GrapesOfLuxury: The happy ending for Howard. He doesn't get the gold but he does get a very nice place indeed as a sort of doctor for the local village. The job seems to mostly consist of lying in a hammock while pretty young ladies who look to be a third of his age wait on him hand and foot, bringing him liquor and fruit that they feed him by hand. (There's also a quite daring for 1948 shot in which one of the lovely ladies serves him tequila shots, allowing him to lick the salt off of ''her'' hand before giving him the shot glass.)
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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: In the end, [[spoiler:the gold is lost for all the people who tried to get it]].
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* AllForNothing: The three protagonists work hard to mine a large quantity of gold. None of them benefits from it: [[spoiler:one is killed by bandits who let the wind blow gold away, so the other two cannot recover it]].
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** Dobbs and Curtin working hard on a construction site and getting nothing in return because the guy who hired them is a swindler foreshadows the fact that [[spoiler:their effort to mine gold will not be rewarded]].
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** When they find gold, Dobbs notes that the gold they mine looks like plain sand. Howard confirms that only experienced people can recognize it. In the end, [[spoiler:the bandits do not recognize it and let the wind blow it away.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: The three protagonists work hard to mine a large quantity of gold. Finally, the gold is [[spoiler:stolen by bandits who do not realize what it is and let the wind blow it away]].
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: All of the main trio do some morally questionable things in the story. Even the ostensible "good" one, Curtin, willingly helps beat up [=McCormick=] and casts the deciding vote to kill Cody.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: All of the main trio do some morally questionable things in the story. Even the ostensible "good" one, Curtin, willingly helps beat up [=McCormick=] and casts the deciding vote to kill Cody. As for Dobbs, the bad guy, he agrees to pay instead of Curtin for buying the equipment. Later, he also agrees to clear up the prospecting site as Howard suggests.
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** Howard says early in the film that banditos would kill Dobbs even if he has no gold, just for stealing his boots. In the end, banditos actually [[spoiler:kill Dobbs and steal his mules, pelts and boots. They do not realize that he carried gold too.]]
