Vite vendute

Titolo originale: Le Salaire de la peur
Regia: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Anno: 1953
Origine: France Italy
Generi: Dramma Thriller Avventura
Tag: petrol | fire | life and death | based on novel or book | unsociability | central and south america | capitalism | venezuela | tanker | dynamite | male friendship | nitroglycerin | truck | oil | central america | on the road | south america | driver | desperation |
Cast: Yves Montand Charles Vanel Peter van Eyck Folco Lulli Véra Clouzot Antonio Centa Jo Dest Darío Moreno William Tubbs Darling Légitimus Luis De Lima Grégoire Gromoff Joseph Palau-Fabre François Valorbe Pat Hurst

In una zona desertica del Guatemala prende fuoco un pozzo petrolifero. Quattro disperati vengono ingaggiati per raggiungere la zona con due camion carichi di nitroglicerina per far saltare il pozzo. La missione è pericolosissima, ma i quattro - un corso, un muratore toscano, un tedesco e un avventuriero parigino - non hanno nulla da perdere.

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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #36.	D
This was the film debut of Véra Clouzot. She was the wife of director Henri-Georges Clouzot. [...]	D
A film of some historical significance as it was a foreign film which, without being dubbed, wa [...]	D
A comprehensive 4K restoration, supervised by cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman, was complete [...]	D
Final film of William Tubbs.	D
32 years before Super Mario Bros. came out on the NES, this film features two characters named [...]	D
Visa d'exploitation en France #11794.	D
Yves Montand's first dramatic role.	D
Henri-Georges Clouzot originally planned on shooting the film in Spain, but Yves Montand refuse [...]	D
Note how Yves Montand's character Mario still smokes his ever-permanent cigarette even around n [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
At 1:22, the tune Bimba plays on his harmonica is "Der Gut Kamerad", traditionally associated w [...]	D
This film has a 100% rating based on 47 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.	D
Original novel: "Le salaire de la peur", written by Georges Arnaud, published by Julliard, Pari [...]	D
Yves Montand and Charles Vanel both suffered from conjunctivitis after filming in a pool of cru [...]	D
Colorized in 1996 with the approval of Henri-Georges Clouzot's daughter.	D
Filming began on 27 August 1951 and was scheduled to run for nine weeks. Numerous problems plag [...]	D
Film shown in S1 E22 of Enterprise: Vox Sola (2002), the crew watches "old movies" to relax on [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
This film was spoofed by Spike Milligan in a Goon Show episode entitled "Fear Of Wages".	D
The large truck Mario and Jo drive to transport the explosives is a White 666.	D
Accusations of anti-Americanism led to the US censor cutting several key scenes from the film. [...]	D
Consensus opinion along with historical facts suggest that oil-rich Venezuela was the most like [...]	D
Jean Gabin refused the role that eventually went to Charles Vanel because he didn't think his f [...]	D
This was the first film to win both the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden [...]	D
Yves Montand - at the time better known as a singer - was greatly intimidated by his more seaso [...]	D
Was the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year in France.	D
Body count: 5 on screen, plus 13 on the oil well disaster (as explained by one of the character [...]	D