Le salaire de la peur = Wages of fear / C.I.C.C--Filmsonor, Vera Film--Fono Roma ; un film de Henri-Georges Clouzot ; adaptation et dialogues de H.G. Clouzot et Jérome Geronimi. ; producteurs délégués R. Borderie et H.G. Clouzot.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
1999
Description:
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, William Tubs, Vera Clouzot, Folco Lulli. Based on the novel by Georges Arnaud. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952. A foreign film (France, Italy)
Summary:
A group of desperate men, stuck for various reasons in a hell hole of a South American village where the big employer is an exploitive American oil company, are offered the chance to earn enough money to escape by driving a cargo of nitro-glycerine over impossibly treacherous roads.
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