‘Dynamic’ ‘Tremendous’ ‘Shattering’
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.
- 8.0
- 1953
- Released
- 2h 33m
Yves Montand
Mario Livi
Charles Vanel
Mr. Jo
Peter van Eyck
Bimba
Folco Lulli
Luigi
Véra Clouzot
Linda
Antonio Centa
Camp Chief
Jo Dest
Hans Smerloff
Darío Moreno
Pepito Hernandez
William Tubbs
Bill O'Brien
Darling Légitimus
Rosa
Luis De Lima
Bernardo
Grégoire Gromoff
Joseph Palau-Fabre
François Valorbe
(uncredited)Pat Hurst
(uncredited)
Released
fr
- #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
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Reviews
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 gang to drive two truckloads of ultra-sensitive nitro-glycerin along some poorly maintained roads and
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.