Four men... Two truckloads of nitro across 200 miles of jungle...

Starring: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell, Karl John, Friedrich von Ledebur

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"We're carrying three cases each. One is enough to blow out your fire, six cases will blow out the whole field. That means you don't think all the trucks will make it, one of us is a backup." - Scanlon

Why watch this? This starts as a simple journey film, then becomes a mesmerizing dreamscape.

Plot Summary: Four fugitives, each on the run from the law in their home countries, end up in a remote and impoverished village in South America. They are offered a dangerous job by an American oil company: transporting several cases of unstable dynamite across perilous jungle roads to extinguish a massive oil well fire. The slightest bump could detonate the cargo.

Dad's Preview: This may be the most harrowing road movie ever filmed. A group of men, all at the end of their line, with no place to go, are forced to take a job hauling nitro glycerin across a 200-mile trek of impassable roads and mountain passes. This dangerous journey is akin to an ascent into hell. Every bump can set off the unstable material and blow them to bits. Who, if any, will survive the journey? This is a very different remake of the French film, Wages of Fear (1953), however both films are superb.

Film Properties Int'l N.V.; Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures

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