The Wages of Fear
DramaThrillerAdventure
8.009/10
|FR
|fr
|153 min
Release Date: 1953-04-22
Overview - In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Production Companies
Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale CinématographiqueVéra FilmsFono RomaFilmsonor
User Reviews
James
8/10
It’s always my honour to write the first review for a film, especially ones like this. It, however, upsets me that not many have seen this magnificent and harrowing masterpiece.
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CinemaSerf
7/10
Four men are stranded in, quite literally, a dead end town with no money to get out. All they do each day is kill time, drink and get gradually more disillusioned. Then their luck changes. Or does it? A major fire breaks out at a nearby oil drilling facility and the manager needs a brave/foolhardy gang to drive two truckloads of ultra-sensitive nitro-glycerin along some poorly maintained roads and...
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