In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.
The kind of motion picture for which commonplace phrases like 'white-knuckle tension ride' have been coined.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
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The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Mar 2007
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Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
6 Dec 2011
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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.