Wages Of Fear
Criterion/Voyager (1953)
Drama, Suspense, Foreign
In Collection
#237
0*
Seen It:  Yes
715515042512
IMDB   8.3
142 mins France / French
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1, Region A   UR (Unrated)
Yves Montand Mario
Charles Vanel M. Jo
Folco Lulli Luigi
Peter van Eyck Bimba
Vera Clouzot Linda
William Tubbs Bill O'Brien
Darío Moreno Hernandez
Jo Dest Smerloff
Antonio Centa Camp Chief
Luis De Lima Bernardo
Director
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Producer Henri-Georges Clouzot
Raymond Borderie
Writer Henri-Georges Clouzot
Georges Arnaud
Cinematography Armand Thirard
Musician Georges Auric


The Wages of Fear / Le Salaire de la Peur – is a black and white French classic by Clouzot about a South American village in the 1950’s where men who are paid to transporting extremely dangerous nitroglycerine. The story is about the rivalry that grows between the two groups of drivers. An art road genre movie.
Edition Details
Edition All-New Restored Special Edition
Distributor Criterion
Release Date 4/21/2009
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed)
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [French]
SUB [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 2

Features
Disc 01 BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:Restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrackVideo interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff and Henri-Georges Clouzot biographer Marc GodinInterview with Yves Montand from 1988Henri-Georges Clouzot: The Enlightened Tyrant, a 2004 documentary on the director s careerCensored, an analysis of cuts made to the film for its 1955 U.S. release PLUS: An booklet featuring an essay by novelist Dennis Lehane
User Defined
Watched Yes