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Director: Cy Endfield
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From Time Out Film Guide
Energetic and violent trucking thriller marked by the raw, angry edge of the best of blacklist victim Endfield's Hollywood work, and by his appreciation (shared, oddly enough, by fellow exile Joseph Losey) of the markedly out-of-the-mainstream talent of Stanley Baker. Playing an ex-con hired as one of a team of drivers forced to drive at dangerous speeds in rattletrap lorries over rugged roads to meet the daily quota of loads to be delivered (a touch of The Wages of Fear here), Baker further becomes involved in a deadly duel with a sadistic rival (McGoohan) on his way to smashing the haulage company's racket. Baker and Endfield eventually formed their own production company for Zulu.Author: PT
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- Posted on Jun 21 2009 01:05 According to the credits from the version shown last week on TV, the director was NOT Cy Endfield. It was something like C. Bender .......... Can anyone explain?
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Cast & crew
Director: Cy Endfield
Producer: S Benjamin Fisz
Cast: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Jill Ireland, Sidney James, Gordon Jackson, Sean Connery full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 108 mins
US Release: Aug 26 1957
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