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Wages of fear = Le salaire de la peur
Title
Wages of fear = Le salaire de la peur / C.I.C.C--Filmsonor, Vera Film--Fono Roma ; un film de Henri-Georges Clouzot ; adaptation et dialogues de H.G. Clouzot et Jérome Geronimi. ; producteurs délégués R. Borderie et H.G. Clouzot.
Published
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the novel by Georges Arnaud.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952.
Director of photography, Armand Thirard ; editors, Henri Rust, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges Auric.
French, Spanish, Italian, German and English dialogue, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Summary
A group of desperate men, stuck for various reasons in a hell hole of a South American village where the big employer is an exploitive American oil company, are offered the chance to earn enough money to escape by driving a cargo of nitro-glycerine over impossibly treacherous roads.
Variant and related titles
Le salaire de la peur
Wages of fear
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French; English; German; Italian
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Criterion collection ; 36
Credits
Director of photography, Armand Thirard ; editors, Henri Rust, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges Auric.
Performers
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, William Tubs, Vera Clouzot, Folco Lulli.
System details note
DVD, Dolby digital mono.
Subjects
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Filmsonor.
C.I.C.C. Films.
Vera Film.
Fono Roma.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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