Fresh
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
The Wages of Fear
‘Dynamic’ ‘Tremendous’ ‘Shattering’
1953 · 2h 28m · Not Rated
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Henri-Georges Clouzot
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The Wages of Fear
Overview
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
The kind of motion picture for which commonplace phrases like 'white-knuckle tension ride' have been coined.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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