Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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Roy Scheider | Scanlon |
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Bruno Cremer | Victor Manzon |
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Francisco Rabal | Nilo |
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Amidou | Kassem |
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Ramon Bieri | Corlette |
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Peter Capell | Lartigue |
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Karl John | 'Marquez' |
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Friedrich von Ledebur | 'Carlos' |
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Chico Martínez | Bobby Del Rios |
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Joe Spinell | Spider |
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Rosario Almontes | Agrippa |
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Richard Holley | Billy White |
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Anne-Marie Deschodt | Blanche |
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Jean-Luc Bideau | Pascal |
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Jacques Francois | Lefevre |
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Andre Falcon | Guillot |
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Gerard Murphy | Donnelly |
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Desmond Crofton | Boyle |
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Henry Diamond | Murray |
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Ray Dittrich | Ben |
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Frank Gio | Marty |
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Randy Jurgensen | Vinnie |
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Cosmo Allegretti | Carlo Ricci |
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Nick Discenza | Father Ricci |
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Frank Pesce | Married Man |
| Director | William Friedkin |
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| Writer | Walon Green, Georges Arnaud, William Friedkin | |
| Producer | William Friedkin, David Salven, Bud S. Smith | |
| Musician | Tangerine Dream | |
| Photography | Dick Bush, John M. Stephens | |
| Edition | The Criterion Collection |
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| Packaging | Slip Case |
| Nr Discs | 3 |
| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 [English] |
| Subtitles | Arabic | English (SDH) | French | German | Spanish |
| Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
| Layers | Single side, Triple layer |
| Regions | Region A | Region Free |
| Index | 2782 |
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| Added Date | Dec 26, 2025 15:05:41 |
| Modified Date | Dec 26, 2025 15:25:13 |
Christmas 2025 gift from Beth
A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic The Wages of Fear was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the New Hollywood’s boldest auteur statements. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate.
New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack approved by director William Friedkin, and alternate original theatrical 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
Friedkin Uncut (2018), a documentary by Francesco Zippel featuring interviews with Friedkin, screenwriter Walon Green, filmmakers Wes Anderson and Francis Ford Coppola, and others
New conversation between filmmaker James Gray and film critic Sean Fennessey
Conversation from 2015 between Friedkin and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn
Archival audio interviews with Green and editor Bud Smith, from the collection of Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, author of William Friedkin (2003)
Behind-the-scenes footage
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Justin Chang
New cover by Nessim Higson
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