The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur]

Henri-Georges Clouzot (director, screenwriter)
Georges Arnaud (novel)
Jerome Geronimi (screenwriter)
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck, Vera Clouzot (starring)

N.p. N.p., 1953. Collection of six vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1953 French film.

Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense, literally volatile thriller which follows a team of four luckless Europeans who have been hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire which has broken out in the oil fields. Received the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Shot on location in and around Gard, France.

9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 36. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Grant France. Selby France.


[Book #149640]