The Wages of Fear
1953NR147 minutes
- Cast:
- Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck, Vera Clouzot, William Tubbs, DarĂo Moreno, Jo Dest
- Director:
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
An oil company enlists four destitute drifters -- Mario (Yves Montand), Luigi (Folco Lulli), Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) and Jo (Charles Vanel) -- for a dangerous mission transporting volatile explosives across Central America's treacherous terrain. Packed with nerve-racking tension that never lets up, director Henri-Georges Clouzot's gritty masterpiece took home the Grand Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.