Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1977 American adventure drama neo noir thriller film directed and produced by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. The second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur, it has been widely considered a remake of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear. Friedkin, however, has disagreed with this assessment. The plot depicts four outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is 'sweating' its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin.
Plot
The film opens with a prologue that consists of four segments described by critics as "vignettes". They show the principal characters in different parts of the world and provide their backstories.
More details
author | Walon Green |
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contentLocation | Venezuela |
director | William Friedkin |
editor | Bud Smith Robert K. Lambert |
genre | adventure drama thriller |
keywords | attempted robbery bingo blow out build business partner capture church damascus gate dynamite edit end fake id force gang member internal conflict irish gang irish mob italian-american mafia jerusalem kill latin america lose meet nazi oil company oil well old friend only way paris stock exchange principal remote village silence stock exchange surround wait war veteran wound |
musicBy | Michel Colombier |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing |
producer | William Friedkin |
productionCompany | Film Properties International N.V. |
publisher | Paramount Pictures Universal Pictures |
recordedAt | New Jersey |
theme | mafia noir |