The Wages of Fear

  • Friday, Dec 13, 2024

    7:00 PM (147 mins)
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  • Sunday, Jan 26, 2025

    6:00 PM (147 mins)
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The Wages of Fear

(Le salaire de la peur)

Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1953

4K Digital Restoration

featuring

Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot, Peter van Eyck,

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s existential thriller is set in an unidentified country. The squalid town of Las Piedras is a haven for tramps scrapping together a day’s meager wage. The reigning ragamuffin is the inveterate drifter Mario (Yves Montand). He teams up with Jo (Charles Vanel), and together they take on the treacherous job of hauling nitroglycerin for an oil company across three hundred miles of gut-churning terrain. The Wages of Fear never relents, waging its own war of nonstop nerve wreckage. Every rutted road, every rickety bridge becomes a harrowing trial for these damned haulers. Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival and shown in a new 4K restoration. 

Steve Seid

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

  • Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Jérôme Géronimi

Based On

  • the novel by Georges Arnaud

Cinematographer

  • Armand Thirard

Language

  • French
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 147 mins

Source

  • Janus Films

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