Four out-of-work men take the job as long distance lorry drivers transporting nitro-glycerine to a remote oil field in the South American jungle. Rivalry develops between the different drivers which is intensified by the heat and the danger. French dialogue with English subtitles.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Raymond Borderie, Henri-Georges Clouzot
EAN
5060034570042
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3950519
Product Key Features
Actor
Yves Montand, William Tubbs, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter Van Eyck, Vera Clouzot
Film/TV Title
Wages of Fear
Director
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Language
French
Subtitle Language
English
Run Time
147 Mins
Release Year
2002
Format
DVD
Features
Black & White, Original Theatrical Trailer\Les Diaboliques Original Trailer\Stills Gallery\Poster Gallery\Cast And Crew Biographies, With Subtitles
Genre
General, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Certificate
PG
Country/Region of Manufacture
France
Composer
Georges Auric
Additional Information
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer to transport two truckloads of nitroglycerin across hazardous jungle terrain. Remade by William Friedkin as SORCERER in 1977.
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly - Rating: B, New York Times - ...Seldom have the exquisite pain and pleasure of motion-picture suspense been mixed with quite the intoxicating effects that [Clouzot] achieves [here]....Classic...