
The Wages of Fear(1953)
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.


“Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.”
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Roy Scheider
Scanlon / "Dominguez"

Bruno Cremer
Victor Manzon / "Serrano"

Francisco Rabal
Nilo

Amidou
Kassem / "Martinez"

Ramon Bieri
Corlette

Peter Capell
Lartigue

Karl John
"Marquez"

Friedrich von Ledebur
"Carlos"
Chico Martínez
Bobby del Rios

Joe Spinell
Spider
Sorcerer is a thriller, adventure, drama film released in 1977 exploring themes of life and death, new jersey, paris, france, based on novel or book, central and south america, explosive. Directed by William Friedkin, it stars Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal. Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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