The Wages of Fear (2-DVD)
Dynamic Tremendous Shattering
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DVD Details
- Video Interviews with Assistant Director Michel Romanoff and Henri-Georges Clouzot Biographer Marc Godin
- Interview with Yves Montand from 1988
- Documentary: Henry-Georges Clouzot: The Enlightened Tyrant
- 24-Page Booklet
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2005
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Yves Montand & Charles Vanel | |
Performer: | William Tubbs, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli & Vera Clouzot | |
Directed by | Henri-Georges Clouzot | |
Edited by | Henry Rust & Madeleine Gug | |
Screenwriting by | Henri-Georges Clouzot | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Art Direction by | René Renoux | |
Produced by | Raymond Borderie & Henri-Georges Clouzot | |
Director of Photography: | Armand Thirard |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1953 -
Best Actor: Charles Vanel
Cannes 1953 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
A harrowing odyssey of four derelicts inching two trucks loaded with nitro-glycerine over a tortuous terrain puts this in the strong meat department with a downbeat theme of fear and its manifestations.
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Variety
...This original is one of the most exciting movies ever...
USA Today
A masterpiece of cruel suspense.
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MetroActive
Rating: A --
Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A reeking bandana movie, with all the expected thrills, but a vision of men as scurrying insects with no redeeming features.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Product Description:
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges 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.
Keywords:
Action
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Classic
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Jungle
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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South America
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- UPC: 037429203224
- Shipping Weight: 0.46/lbs (approx)
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