The Wages of Fear

Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot (1954).
The ultimate in existential drama, Clouzot’s nail-biter, hokey but effective, sends a pair of scurvy expatriates driving through the back roads of Central America with a cargo of nitroglycerine.

Thu., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., 2011

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