Based on the 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur and critically hailed upon its original release, The Wages of Fear propelled its director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques) to international fame, and is rightly considered a classic of world cinema.

In a squalid South American village, four desperate men are hired by a US oil company to embark on a treacherous journey, transporting a volatile cargo of nitro-glycerine to a massive oil well fire. Friendships and courage are pushed to the limit in this nail-biting thriller by a director who would go on to be dubbed the ‘French Hitchcock’.

‘A masterpiece of suspense’ Christopher Nolan

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Director	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actor	Yves Montand, Véra Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Yves Montrand, Peter Van Eyck
Label	BFI

Genre	Drama Thriller
Content	Blu-ray + DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 12
Publication date	23.10.2017
Edition	DualDisc
Audio	French (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles	English
Length	152 Minutes
Screen	16/9
Year of production	1953
Original title	Le salaire de la peur (French)
Version	UK Version
Region code	2, B

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Klassiker

Written on 12. August 2003 by Ledermann Jan.
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