The Wages of Fear

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Le salaire de la peur
Date: January 01, 1953 to December 31, 1953
Dates Note: 1953
Country of Origin: France
Place of Origin: France
Languages: French
Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: the novel by Georges Arnaud
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Special Screenings 2024
Description: 

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. 

Authors/Roles: 
Steve Seid

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