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Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer to transport two truckloads of nitroglycerin across hazardous jungle terrain. Remade by William Friedkin as SORCERER in 1977.
Synopsis
Henri Georges Clouzot directed this tense and suspenseful drama about four men so desperate for freedom that they willingly risk their lives to deliver a dangerous cargo.
In a small, isolated, hot and dusty Central American village, there's only one thing to do: dream of getting out. An opportunity for escape presents itself -- but only to those with nerves of steel. An American oil company has offered to pay big bucks to get two trucks filled with nitroglycerin over to a well fire. The catch: the unpaved terrain contains enough bumps and crags to make the unstable material explode... and instantly kill the driver. Nonetheless, the company has many applicants hungry for work, and a quartet of the coolest are chosen. But even these stalwart men will discover that fear of their deadly payload can ignite even the most frozen emotions.
Industry Reviews
Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly - p.67 - Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...Seldom have the exquisite pain and pleasure of motion-picture suspense been mixed with quite the intoxicating effects that [Clouzot] achieves [here]....Classic..."
New York Times - p.C8 - Vincent Canby (10/18/1991)
"...The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (03/06/1992)
"...This original is one of the most exciting movies ever..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (11/05/1991)
"[I]t's a masterpiece of tension, precision, and a very specific form of masculine desperation." -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly - Marc Bernardin (10/21/2005)
4 stars out of 4 -- "Memorable performances, precise pacing, subtle detail: Now that's thrilling."
Premiere - Tim Sheridan (12/01/2005)
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