The Wages of Fear
  • Title: The Wages of Fear
  • Original Title: Le Salaire de la peur
  • Release Date: 22/04/1953
  • Tagline: ‘Dynamic’ ‘Tremendous’ ‘Shattering’
  • Duration:153 Min / 02:33
  • Country:FRIT
  • Genre:DramaThrillerAdventure

About Film

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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JN2012
JN2012
8/10
It’s always my honour to write the first review for a film, especially ones like this. It, however, upsets me that not many have seen this magnificent and harrowing masterpiece.
Geronimo1967
Geronimo1967
7/10
Four men are stranded in, quite literally, a dead end town with no money to get out. All they do each day is kill time, drink and get gradually more disillusioned. Then their luck changes. Or does it? A major fire breaks out at a nearby oil drilling facility and the manager needs a brave/foolhardy gang to drive two truckloads of ultra-sensitive...