Wages of fear aka Le salaire de la peur (1953) - classic French thriller directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli and Véra Clouzot
Rating 8.2/10
Runtime: 153 min
Language: French/English/Spanish/German/Italian/Russian
Country: France/Italy
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
Cast
Yves Montand ... Mario Livi
Charles Vanel ... M. Jo
Peter van Eyck ... Bimba
Folco Lulli ... Luigi
Véra Clouzot ... Linda
William Tubbs ... Bill O'Brien
Description: In a desolate South American village several men try to find a way out. Their main problem is they are essentially marooned there. The only road out of town goes only as far as the oil drilling rigs and they are nowhere near having the money to fly out. There are no jobs to speak of and one day seems to just blend into the next. When a major fire breaks at the oil drilling site, the oil company hires four men to transport highly volatile nitroglycerin over a rough terrain and roads that have been virtually abandoned. The four accept the job because of the money they're offered is more than enough to allow them to leave once the job is done. The job is so dangerous however that few people expect them to return alive...
Screens:
https://ufile.io/6ve0z7sb
Also a set of extras included:
* Interview with Assistant Director Michel Romanoff (2009, 23 mins)
* Interview with Clouzot biographer Marc Godin (2009, 10 mins)
* Interview with Professor Lucy Mazdon (2017, 35 mins): an in-depth interview about Henri-Georges Clouzot and The Wages of Fear
* Interview with Yves Montand (5 mins)
* "Henri Georges Clouzot - An Enlightened Tyrant" - 2004 documentary gives an overview of director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s background and film career. It includes interviews with Clouzot’s second wife, Inès; his brother Marcel; actors Suzy Delair and Brigitte Bardot and assistant director Michel Romanoff.
* Censored (12 mins) - an essay explaining movie being censored and several scenes being cout off, mainly to suppress the film’s homoeroticism and anti-Americanism
* Original theatrical trailer
Video and audio information:
Video : 5.19 GB, 4865 Kbps, 24 fps, 788x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 111/87/87 MB (main/commentary/commentary), 101/80/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR/VBR
Subtitles (English closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, German, Polish, Polish, Czech) posters and screenshots included
Triple audio track information
This movie contains three audio tracks, one is original French, and the others are commentary by film critic Adrian Martin and The Guardian Lecture: Yves Montand in conversation with Don Allen, recorded in 1989, where the star discusses his distinguished career. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional tracks on Track 2 and Track 3)
