The Wages of Fear

Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.

Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.

The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of "pure cinema" that probably gave even the Master cold sweats.

Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since.

A nail-biting drama that's a must-see.

A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.

To say it’s an extraordinary sit is not doing justice to this the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, nihilistic look at the world.

The movie feels modern, even though it was made more than 70 years ago.

Your blood pressure will go up to dangerous levels while watching this.

A grindingly cynical study of human nature, with each participant willing to sacrifice the others for a bigger payoff.