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In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Keywords
petrol
fire
life and death
based on novel or book
unsociability
central and south america
capitalism
venezuela
tanker
dynamite
male friendship
nitroglycerin
truck
oil
central america
on the road
south america
driver
criterion
desperation
Casts
Yves Montand
Mario Livi
Charles Vanel
Mr. Jo
Peter van Eyck
Bimba
Folco Lulli
Luigi
Véra Clouzot
Linda
Antonio Centa
Camp Chief
Jo Dest
Hans Smerloff
Darío Moreno
Pepito Hernandez
William Tubbs
Bill O'Brien
Darling Légitimus
Rosa
Luis De Lima
Bernardo
Grégoire Gromoff
Joseph Palau-Fabre
François Valorbe
(uncredited)
Pat Hurst
(uncredited)
Crews
Georges Arnaud
Novel
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Director
Armand Thirard
Director of Photography
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Étiennette Muse
Editor
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Screenplay
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Producer
Henri Rust
Editor
Jérôme Géronimi
Screenplay
Raymond Borderie
Producer
Madeleine Gug
Editor
Michel Romanoff
Assistant Director
René Renoux
Art Direction
Henri Jaquillard
Unit Production Manager
René Renoux
Set Decoration
Georges Bouban
Makeup Artist
Georges Auric
Music Director
Robert Juillard
Camera Operator
Jean Lallier
Camera Operator
Louis Wipf
Production Manager
Louis Née
Camera Operator
Roberto Savarese
Assistant Director
Lucien Lippens
Unit Production Manager
Jérôme Géronimi
Still Photographer
Lucienne Chevert
Still Photographer
William Robert Sivel
Sound Designer
Marc Desages
Assistant Set Decoration
Backdrops & Posters
