The Wages of Fear (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 21, 2009
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Vanel & Yves Montand | |
Performer: | Vera Clouzot, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli & William Tubbs | |
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:
...Seldom have the exquisite pain and pleasure of motion-picture suspense been mixed with quite the intoxicating effects that [Clouzot] achieves [here]....Classic...
New York Times
Rating: A --
Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A masterpiece of cruel suspense.
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MetroActive
Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 4 -- Memorable performances, precise pacing, subtle detail: Now that's thrilling.
Premiere
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
Rating: 5/5 --
Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
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Time Out
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.
Product Description:
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 expensive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense Henri Georges-Clouzot.
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
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- Sales Rank: 64,757
- UPC: 715515042512
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