Director(s)Henri-Georges Clouzot
Producer(s)Raymond Borderie, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Top GenresAction, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller/Suspense
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The Wages of Fear (1953) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Raymond Borderie.

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The Wages of Fear (1953)

By Beatrice on Jan 9, 2014 From Flickers in Time

The Wages of Fear (“Le salaire de la peur”) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and?J?r?me G?ronimi based on the novel by Georges Arnaud 1953/France/Italy Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cin?matographique (CICC)/Filmsonor/Vera Films/Fono Roma Repea... Read full article


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Mario: When someone else is driving, I'm scared.


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This was the first film to win both the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Visa d'exploitation en France #11794.
Henri-Georges Clouzot originally planned on shooting the film in Spain, but Yves Montand and his wife, Simone Signoret, refused to work in Spain as long as fascist dictator Francisco Franco was in power. Filming took place instead in the south of France, near Saint-Gilles, in the Camargue. The village seen in the film was built from scratch.
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