Hell Drivers (1957)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Peggy Cummins, Sid James, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
Taking a job as a truckie for a haulage firm, ex-con Tom Yately meets the hostile and fiercely competitive 'Red' Redman and gradually comes to suspect their employer's illicit practices.
Review:
Tough, melodramatically directed crime noir, a notable 'B' picture success of its day which carried a number of those involved to higher things. The hair-raising, highspeed races along muddy roads, and the sense of a closed off, dead end existence, are reminiscent of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Peggy Cummins, Sid James, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
Taking a job as a truckie for a haulage firm, ex-con Tom Yately meets the hostile and fiercely competitive 'Red' Redman and gradually comes to suspect their employer's illicit practices.
Review:
Tough, melodramatically directed crime noir, a notable 'B' picture success of its day which carried a number of those involved to higher things. The hair-raising, highspeed races along muddy roads, and the sense of a closed off, dead end existence, are reminiscent of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Peggy Cummins, Sid James, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
Taking a job as a truckie for a haulage firm, ex-con Tom Yately meets the hostile and fiercely competitive 'Red' Redman and gradually comes to suspect their employer's illicit practices.
Review:
Tough, melodramatically directed crime noir, a notable 'B' picture success of its day which carried a number of those involved to higher things. The hair-raising, highspeed races along muddy roads, and the sense of a closed off, dead end existence, are reminiscent of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear.