For the Tellison album, see The Wages of Fear (album).
The Wages of Fear
Promotional poster
Directed by
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Screenplay by
Henri-Georges Clouzot Jérome Geronimi
Based on
Le Salaire de la peur (1950 novel) by Georges Arnaud
Produced by
Raymond Borderie
Starring
Yves Montand
Charles Vanel
Folco Lulli
Peter Van Eyck
Véra Clouzot
Cinematography
Armand Thirard
Edited by
Madeleine Gug Etiennette Muse Henri Rust
Music by
Georges Auric
Production company
Vera Film
Filmsonor
C.I.C.C.
Fono Roma
Distributed by
Cinédis (France)
Release date
22 April 1953 (1953-04-22)
Running time
153 minutes
Countries
France Italy[1]
Languages
French
Spanish
English
Italian
Box office
6,944,306 admissions[2]
The Wages of Fear (French: Le Salaire de la peur[a]) is a 1953 thriller film directed and co-written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot. The film centers on a group of four down-on-their-luck European men who are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish an oil well fire. It is adapted from a 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud.
The film brought Clouzot international fame—winning both the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, respectively—and enabled him to direct Les Diaboliques (1955). In France, it was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year with a total of nearly 7 million admissions.[2]
^"Le Salaire de la Peur". British Film Institute. London. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
^ ab"Le Salaire de la peur (1953)". jpbox-office.com. 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
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