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The Wages of Fear

The Wages of Fear

8.0/ 10

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1953

Release Year

154 min

Runtime

Drama
Thriller
Adventure

Overview

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

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Keywords

petrol
fire
life and death
based on novel or book
unsociability
central and south america
capitalism
venezuela
tanker
dynamite
male friendship
nitroglycerin
truck
oil
fear
explosion
central america
on the road
south america
labor
driver
road movie
wage
dangerous driving
fear of death
road
job
labour
desperation
suspenseful

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
James

James

@JN2012

November 9, 2023

8
8/10

It’s always my honour to write the first review for a film, especially ones like this. It, however, upsets me that not many have seen this magnificent and harrowing masterpiece.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 9, 2024

7
7/10

Four men are stranded in, quite literally, a dead end town with no money to get out. All they do each day is kill time, drink and get gradually more disillusioned. Then their luck changes. Or does it? A major fire breaks out at a nearby oil drilling facility and the manager needs a brave/foolhardy g

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