Le salaire de la peur [videorecording] = Wages of fear / C.I.C.C--Filmsonor, Vera Film--Fono Roma ; un film de Henri-Georges Clouzot ; adaptation et dialogues de H.G. Clouzot et Jérôme Geronimi ; producteurs délégués, R. Borderie et H.G. Clouzot.

Other Titles: Salaire de la peur.

Edition: Director's cut.

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Classic Collection, 1999.

Description: 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Series: Criterion collection ; 36

Subject: Exploitation Latin America Drama.
Motion pictures, French.
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Foreign films.
Courage Latin America Drama.
Latin America Drama.

Credits: Director of photography, Armand Thirard; editors, Henri Rust, Madeleine Gug; music, Georges Auric.

Performers: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, William Tubbs, Vera Clouzot, Folco Lulli.

Notes: In French, Spanish, Italian, German and English with optional English subtitles.
A foreign film (France, Italy).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952.
Based on the novel by Georges Arnaud.

Summary: A drama of courage, cowardice and failure set in South America. Four desperate men attempt to transport two truck-loads of nitro-glycerine 300 miles to the site of an oil well fire.