The Wages of Fear (2-DVD)

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The Wages of Fear (2-DVD)
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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

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Major Awards:

Cannes 1953 - Best Actor: Charles Vanel
Cannes 1953 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh100%

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Total Count: 44

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,693
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. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Apr 2, 2014
Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 13, 1995
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. Full Review
Variety
Mar 1, 2007
...This original is one of the most exciting movies ever...
USA Today
Nov 5, 1991
A masterpiece of cruel suspense. Full Review
MetroActive
May 31, 2018
Rating: A -- Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Mar 25, 2013
A reeking bandana movie, with all the expected thrills, but a vision of men as scurrying insects with no redeeming features. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006

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.

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  • UPC: 037429203224
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