Jo and Mario transport the nitroglycerin in one vehicle; Luigi and Bimba are in the other, with thirty minutes separating them in order to limit potential casualties.

The Wages of Fear will keep you tipped forward on the edge of your seat, your palms sweaty and your heart thumping wildly.

The only way to get the nitroglycerine to the oil field is to drive it in jerrycans on the flatbed of a large truck across 300 miles of horrible roads making sure not to hit a bump too hard or go too fast or too slow. The so-called "director's cut" runs 148 minutes. A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. Written by and the Terms and Policies,

and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Make no mistake about it, this is a downbeat film, but also a brilliant work of art. What are the differences between the old Theatrical Versions and the Uncensored Version? The actual driving scenes are full of suspense and bit of humour. The stripped down existentialism of the characters, the starkness of their shared dilemma, the grim and grimy scenery, and the cinematography itself are all of a piece. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. The suspense that these four characters are literally sitting on a bomb that could go off at any time drives the film for the last hour and a half. You can tell Clouzot has fun putting the viewer in a false sense of security.

"[7] Leonard Maltin awarded the film 3½ out of 4 stars,calling it a "marvelously gritty and extremely suspenseful epic". This is filmmaking at its very best and rarely does a film grip with such intensity, some scenes being almost unbearable to watch as the situations the men find themselves in create palpable tension, which you believe utterly. Un camí cap a la bogeria d'uns homes, que no els hi queda esperança. The film was colorized in 1996 with the approval of Clouzot's daughter. Luigi, Mario's roommate, is a jovial, hardworking man, who has just learned that he is dying from cement dust in his lungs. 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. "[9] The website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 44 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.92/10. Yet it never becomes mannered or gratuitous - it is orchestrated with the rise - and rise! With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli.

131 min [Blu-ray]. Comedy, Certificate: Passed Que suspense! Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. The final scene takes on a surreal as opposed to ultra-realistic quality that has its own logic.

Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, The 20 Best Spanish-Language Shows on Netflix. Despite the dangers, many of the locals volunteer, lured by the high pay: US$2,000 per driver. | Once taking the wheel he seems unsure and scared and perhaps Mario is thinking he is too old, too careful driving to the point it may kill them both. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Mario swerves recklessly and intentionally, having cheated death so many times on the same road. When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. He collects double the wages following his friends' deaths, and refuses the appointed chauffeur offered by SOC. that each actor is a celebrity and potential artiste, has ruined that conviction that actors were once larger than life people before they went on-screen, that they came to acting as an outcome of living rough, unadorned, and yet imaginative lives as opposed to shooting for fame and fortune and celebrity within an artificial corporate star-making incubator. Bimba is an intense, quiet man whose father was murdered by the Nazis, and who himself worked for three years in a salt mine. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote "The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. This included the cutting of several scenes giving a negative portrayal of the fictional American oil company "SOC" after the film was accused of anti-Americanism. [22], The Goon Show episode "The Fear of Wages" was inspired by the 1953 film.

The film brought Clouzot international fame—winning both the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, respectively—and enabled him to direct Les Diaboliques. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The only way to extinguish the flames and cap the well is an explosion caused by nitroglycerine. "Wages of Fear" is an uncompromising parable about money, greed, and man's jealous desire for that which he can never have. Russian, 10 March 2020 |, January 26, 2006 If this isn't a parable of man's position in the modern world, it's at least an illustration of it.

Speeding up, slowing down, backing up are all moments that cause alarm and Clouzot does it all with such precision and care. la trepidant amb un ritme creixent que enganxa i molt, sense deixar de costat una elevada qualitat literària. Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes... An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. to which Mario responds, "Wherever there's oil."

There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. There's two truck driven by two men, Mario and Jo in one and Bimba and Luigi in the other.

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. Cinemark ‘Star Wars’: Still With Us, But No Longer Above Us (Column), ‘The Load’ Film Review: A Trucker Hauls Mystery Cargo Through War-Torn Serbia, Rotten Tomatoes: Top Art House & International Movies, IMDb Top 250 Foreign Language Film (Non Animated), Face-Off: The 'Wages of Fear' vs. 'Diabolique', The Graham Norton Show: Jim Carrey/Jeff Daniels/Jude Law/Tamsin Greig/Nicole Scherzinger. A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story. The film was drastically cut for its 1955 U.S. release, losing around 35 minutes of its original running time.

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