The Wages of Fear

His previous film, Miquette, being a financial disappointment, Henri-Georges Clouzot finally returned to the world of suspense after a two film break. The Wages of Fear, based on a novel by Georges Arnaud, is Clouzot’s most hopeless and technically well-crafted film, a marvel of suspense and tension that stretches simple events to the breaking point. Four men facing nature down in search of a victory to get them out of the unnamed Central American nation where they’ve found themselves trappe...