Sorcerer (1977)
(Wages of Fear)
Country: US
Technical: col 121m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
A Brooklyn gangster flees the country when a double-cross goes wrong, and winds up in Mexico living on a shoestring. Faced with rotting slowly in the jungle or securing passage elsewhere, he and three other desperados respond to a call from the region's sole employer, an oil company, to convey unstable dynamite to a derrick fire by truck.
Review:
Pretty much an update of Clouzot's original, with set pieces including a hair-raisingly rickety bridge (a sequence which added considerably to the budget) and a makeshift demolition of a fallen tree. However, it establishes matters a good deal more messily, with a Parisian story and far less friendly locals, without ever really answering why these two men would venture to such a place without first securing a ticket out. The whole production was beset with problems, and has a continental co-production feel to it with all the heavy accents and lurches in continuity. For many years fallen from view, it merits a look for the sheer guts put into its making.
(Wages of Fear)
Country: US
Technical: col 121m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
A Brooklyn gangster flees the country when a double-cross goes wrong, and winds up in Mexico living on a shoestring. Faced with rotting slowly in the jungle or securing passage elsewhere, he and three other desperados respond to a call from the region's sole employer, an oil company, to convey unstable dynamite to a derrick fire by truck.
Review:
Pretty much an update of Clouzot's original, with set pieces including a hair-raisingly rickety bridge (a sequence which added considerably to the budget) and a makeshift demolition of a fallen tree. However, it establishes matters a good deal more messily, with a Parisian story and far less friendly locals, without ever really answering why these two men would venture to such a place without first securing a ticket out. The whole production was beset with problems, and has a continental co-production feel to it with all the heavy accents and lurches in continuity. For many years fallen from view, it merits a look for the sheer guts put into its making.
(Wages of Fear)
Country: US
Technical: col 121m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
A Brooklyn gangster flees the country when a double-cross goes wrong, and winds up in Mexico living on a shoestring. Faced with rotting slowly in the jungle or securing passage elsewhere, he and three other desperados respond to a call from the region's sole employer, an oil company, to convey unstable dynamite to a derrick fire by truck.
Review:
Pretty much an update of Clouzot's original, with set pieces including a hair-raisingly rickety bridge (a sequence which added considerably to the budget) and a makeshift demolition of a fallen tree. However, it establishes matters a good deal more messily, with a Parisian story and far less friendly locals, without ever really answering why these two men would venture to such a place without first securing a ticket out. The whole production was beset with problems, and has a continental co-production feel to it with all the heavy accents and lurches in continuity. For many years fallen from view, it merits a look for the sheer guts put into its making.