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Wages of Fear
Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck
1953
French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and based on a 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. When a South American oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. The film brought Clouzot international fame and allowed him to direct Les Diaboliques (with Simone Signoret).