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Movie Overview
Cast
• Yves Montand
• Charles Vanel
• Vera Clouzot
Director
• Henri-Georges Clouzot
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The Wages of Fear (1952)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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5/5
"The Wages of Fear is a frantic, vicious, existentialist howl that still manages to laugh; it goes grinning into the void."  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

A
"The Wages of Fear, the ultimate truck driver picture, is primarily a general exemplification of how the rich take advantage of the poor, how they're happy to send them out on missions of certain death for their own personal, capital benefit."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

4/4
"The kind of motion picture for which commonplace phrases like 'white-knuckle tension ride' have been coined."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/5
"A terrific portrait of the class struggle that happens to have a few cases of nitro strapped to it to up the ante from the metaphorical to the extremely physical."  Netflix  James Rocchi

A
"Clouzot's camera captures the suspense as visually as Hitchcock"  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

+3 out of -4..+4
"A film that works, and works well enough to get audible gasps from the audience."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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