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The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur)

  • Rated Not Rated
  • 2hr 36m
  • 85

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Writer:

Georges Arnaud, Jérôme Géronimi

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1953

Runtime:

2hr 36m

Synopsis

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Cast

  • Yves Montand
  • Charles Vanel
  • Folco Lulli
  • Peter van Eyck
  • Véra Clouzot
  • William Tubbs
  • Darío Moreno
  • Jo Dest
  • Antonio Centa
  • Luis De Lima

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Metacritic

85
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Based on 15 Critics
8.2

USER SCORE (37)

Universal acclaim based on 37 Reviews
60
Jul 1, 2020

A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat, though it reeks of French 50s attitude, which includes misogyny, snobbishness, and borderline racism.

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Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
100
Jul 1, 2020

The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
100
Dec 7, 2011

Here's where it's easiest to see Clouzot's advantage over his more famous peer, as he combines nail-biting action scenes - calibrated to the millimeter - with a Hawksian command of earthy performances.

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Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out
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