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Sorcerer Details

1977 Certificate TBC
  • Rated:
  • 70
  • from 28 members

Roy Scheider lends his intense talent to this taut action-adventure from director William Friedkin. Set on the edge of a South American Jungle, a desperate four-man team, led by Scheider, must transport a volatile cargo of nitroglycerine over 200 miles of treacherous terrain in order to stop a potentially disastrous oil fire. Read more

Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer
Director William Friedkin
Genres Action/Adventure

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Sorcerer

Roy Scheider lends his intense talent to this taut action-adventure from director William Friedkin. Set on the edge of a South American Jungle, a desperate four-man team, led by Scheider, must transport a volatile cargo of nitroglycerine over 200 miles of treacherous terrain in order to stop a potentially disastrous oil fire.

Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer
Director William Friedkin
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 1 min
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Action/Adventure
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1977
Format DVD

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  • Friedkin's remake of Clouzot's 1953 thriller, The Wages of Fear, at a cost of more than twenty million dollars, bombed... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    See "Wages of Fear" instead

    This is a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'The Wages of Fear',arguably the greatest action/suspense film ever made. So why bother to redo something that was perfect to begin with? William Friedkin refuses to provide any answer to that question. There are some good moments in this story of men driving trucks of nitro-glycerine through the South American jungle (the trucks driving across a collapsing rope bridge for one) but nothing to match the set pieces (and the awesomely fatalistic tone)in the original. Scheider is no Yves Montand and Friedkin, in this instance, is no Clouzot.

    See this film for curiosity value only but seek out the original 'Wages of Fear' at all costs: after a purposely slow opening it builds, via one amazing suspense sequence after another (with shocks, too, along the way) into the most thrilling action film I've ever seen.

      • A customer from Aberdeen
      • Posted 03 Sep 2007 14:56

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