Ipswich Film Society

The Wages of Fear (1953)

2013/14 Season

THE WAGES OF FEAR

France/Italy 1953 (PG)
140 minutes
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Ipswich Film Theatre - 27 January 2014 - 7.30pm
Nerve-rending suspense film about expat drifters who sign up to drive truckloads of nitroglycerine over bumpy Venezuelan roads, as an escape from their existence – one way or another. Clouzot’s classic reeks with his characteristic pessimism about the human condition.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS: As good as it was when I last watched it as a school boy; Would make a brilliant health and safety film; It blew me away; What I want to know is what happened to the can of nitroglycerine they took off the lorry to syphon from; Thought that’s how to die on the way back; Truly dreadful!

The Wages of Fear (1953)

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