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YNOPSIS: BOULDER DAM TREASURE The inspiration of the movie TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE led to the film script you’re about to read. An amateur Geologist myself, I also prospected for gold in the area portrayed in this screenplay. The selection of Boulder Dam came because of visiting the Dam itself and watching the file footage of the thousands of men and machinery building this massive concrete edifice. Coupling this with the panoramic splendor of the Grand Canyon was to provide the viewing audience with a festival for the eyes. To pique the interest of film producers into making this project a reality is of course the goal. The historic significance of such an undertaking should be taken into consideration. In 1932 at the height of the Great Depression, twenty year old Bob Karr and his partner Charlie are at work clearing a roadway of boulders. The skies darken and a monsoonal rainstorm forces them to abandon their vehicle and seek shelter. Bob heads upward towards an overhang of rocks with Charlie close behind. Spotting what appears to be a haven, Bob ducks under, squeezes through a tight opening and enters a wide cave. Charlie is quick to follow. They’re removing their hats and shirts when a beam of light reveals a glistening on a wall. Bob saunters over places his hands on the surface and becomes ecstatic. ‘It gold Bob shouts.” Charlie rushes over, confirms Bob suspicions and they begin to celebrate. It’s short lived once Bob realizes they’re on Federal Land. “Besides, we’d have to share it with thousands of other guy’s,” laments Bob. “You mean we’re just a gonna let it lay” shouts Charlie. “Nope, we’ll fill our pockets with the lose stuff laying around and come back some day after they build this here Dam.” Says the not to convincing Bob. At the time, Bob is unaware the Dam builders need for gravel caused them to isolate Bob’s hidden gold mine on a precipitous cliff only a mountain goat could reach. In 1992 some, sixty years later Bob is at the Boulder Dam Parking Lot in his battered old Pick-up truck. He’s awaiting the arrival of his ex-convict nephew Tee Jay. Recently released from Prison, Tee Jay steps off a bus accompanied by his girl-friend. Linda Lee is a well-endowed, swivel hipped cow-girl with a lust for trouble. Bob enlists Tee Jay to sell the map to the gold mine. Prospectors Ted Garrett and his partner Sluice Gordon leap at the opportunity. When Tee Jay and Linda Lee celebrate the sale at a local Saloon, they get stinking drunk and inform Everett, the Bad Ass sheriff about. Ted Garrett’s an ex-paratrooper who employs all his military training just to reach the hidden gold mine. The unscrupulous sheriff does everything possible to prevent Ted from removing the gold. In a running gun battle Everett, in a twin diesel police patrol boat shoots it out with Ted in a pontoon boat. It takes place just as the gold was found during a monsoonal rainstorm at the edge of Boulder Dam. With the loser in a plunge to eternity