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Director: William Friedkin
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From Time Out Film Guide
Friedkin's remake of Clouzot's 1953 thriller, The Wages of Fear, at a cost of more than twenty million dollars, bombed spectacularly in the States. Even cut by almost thirty minutes for British release, the film's narrative of four desperate men trucking nitroglycerin through 300 miles of South American jungle advances at far too slow a pace to aspire to the suspense value of the original. Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour. One simply wonders what, say, Peckinpah might have made of it.Author: RM
User reviews of this film
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- Drew Basinger said...
- Posted on Aug 20 2010 19:49 I thought it was creative and well done. The story line involves you from the beginning. Gripping.
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- Dan Dean said...
- Posted on Aug 26 2008 22:16 One of the worst, disjointed, depressing, and generally bad films I have ever seen!!
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Cast & crew
Director: William Friedkin
Producer: William Friedkin
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Crémer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 121 mins
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