The Wages of Fear

Original title: Le salaire de la peur

2024
TV-MA
1h 44m

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4.6/10

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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.

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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.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.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.

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IMDb RATING

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See production info at IMDbPro

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The Wages of Fear

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Trivia
Remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic "Le Salaire de la Peur" ("The Wages of Fear") 1953.

Goofs
When the oil well blows they focused in on in on a pressure gauge clearly marked in "bar". 1bar =14.5 PSI. The gauge read about 2.5 bar or about 45 psi. That's a little above the water pressure in your house. Not enough to blow out any kind of piping.

They show the Nitroglycerin as a dark red liquid. It's a clear yellowish dense liquid.

They said it couldn't be transported by helicopter because the atmospheric pressure changes would set it off.

Notro is set off by physical shock or heating, not by small pressure changes. And the pressure change up in a helicopter is minimal. Of course you'd have to take off/land very gently.

Quotes
Fred: I've got nothing, Alex. I can't go back to France like this.

Connections
Remake of The Wages of Fear (1953)

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4/10

Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic get the Fast & Furious treatment

Do you remember that Demi Moore film version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER where they added sex, violence, and a happy ending? If you do remember that, this movie is pretty much the same thing. It's a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic 1954 film about four desperate men transporting highly volatile nitroglycerine over rocky terrain to extinguish a South American oil drill fire. That film was intelligent, well-crafted, and featured some of the most suspenseful scenes in film history. This remake takes that masterpiece, dispenses with any subtext, and pours on muscular action in the vein of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise. As dumb as that sounds, it's entertaining enough. Also, I'll admit to having a soft spot for the ridiculous Demi Moore Hawthorn films (it may have my favorite John Barry score), but if you want an actually good remake of the Clouzot film, check out William Friedkin's 1977 version, THE SORCERER, which manages to equal Clouzot's original in both intelligence and nail-biting suspense.