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The Wages of Fear
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #124
- IMDb #263
- Rotten Tomatoes #26
- Metacritic #267
- Letterboxd #71
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #16
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #189
- Metacritic Critics #420
- Metacritic Audience #290
- Criticker #20
- Kinopoisk #401
- AlloCiné #235
- Trakt #704
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 78, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a squalid South American village, four destitute European men are hired by an American oil company for a suicidal mission. They must drive two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over 300 miles of treacherous mountain roads to an oil well fire. The slightest jolt could cause an explosion, turning the journey into a white-knuckle test of nerves.
Details
- Director
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Writers
- Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi
- Based on
- Le Salaire de la peur by Georges Arnaud
- Released
- 22 April 1953
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 6 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 major award won · 6 wins from 6 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Palme d'Or 1953 | Palme d'Or | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Best Film 1955 | Best Film | The Wages of Fear | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film 1955 | Best Foreign Language Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Best Film 1954 | Best Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Golden Bear 1953 | Golden Bear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Special Mention 1953 | Special Mention | Charles Vanel | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — The Wages of Fear
×| Palme d'Or | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Best Film | The Wages of Fear | Winner |
| Best Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Golden Bear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Winner |
| Special Mention | Charles Vanel | Winner |