Les Diaboliques (film)
1955
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film and British Film 1955 · Winner
Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm 1953 · Winner
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Golden Bear 1953 · Winner
- Awards Cannes Film Festival • 2 Wins & 2 Nominations Blue Ribbon Awards • 1 Win & 1 Nomination French Syndicate of Cinema Critics • 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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The Wages of Fear (French: Le Salaire de la peur[a]) is a 1953 thriller film directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot.
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The Wages of Fear: Directed by Julien Leclercq. With Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Sofiane Zermani, Ana Girardot. In order to prevent a deadly explosion, an illicit crack team has 24 hours to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerine across a desert laden with danger.
- (3.4K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Julien Leclercq
- 2024-03-29
A gripping action film and a powerful study of failure. "The Wages of Fear" was awarded by unanimous verdict the Grand Prix at 1953 Cannes Film Festival where it won over 27 films, some of which were made by Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Luis Buñuel.
- (67K)
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- 1955-02-16
Mar 6, 1992 · The Wages Of Fear. When the great French thriller “The Wages of Fear” (1953) was first released in America, it was missing parts of several early scenes — because it was too long, the U.S. distributors said, and because they were anti-American, according to the Parisian critics.
May 22, 2017 · Thanks to a jury presided over by Jean Cocteau and including director Abel Gance, actor Edward G. Robinson, and screenwriter Charles Spaak, The Wages of Fear took the top prize at the festival’s sixth edition, the Grand Prix (the Palme d’Or did not come into play until the 1955 festival), along with the best actor prize for Charles Vanel.
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves.
The Wages of Fear. To prevent a deadly explosion, an illicit crack team has 24 hours to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerin across a desert laden with danger.
- (11)
- Action, Adventure
