Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Nutbeem on 19 July, 2019, 05:39:29 pm
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I have vaugue recollections from my childhood of watching a film with trucks loaded with Nitroglycerin being driven other mountain roads to a remote village.
I never knew the name of the film, and my parents, who presumably watched it as well have no idea.
Recently I came across Wages of Fear, but having watched it I know it is not the film I saw as a child, although the premise is very similar & it would have been about the same era.
Any guesses what the film I saw may have been?
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The William Friedkin-directed 'Sorceror' was based on the same novel as 'Wages of Fear', but was produced in the 1970s.
'Violent Road' was a remake later in the 1950s, but with a cargo of hypergolic rocket fuel rather than nitroglycerin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Road
Edited to fix broken link (it's weird how the closing parenthesis in a Wikipedia link won't be recognised).
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It will be Sorceror. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
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Friedkin still maintains that it wasn't a huge box office hit because it was released at almost, but not quite, exactly the same time as "Star Wars" ;D
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The Sorcerer looks very promising
Now need to locate a copy & relive some childhood memories :)