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Line 1: {{work}} {{Needs Image}} '''''The Wages of Fear''''' (French title: ''Le Salaire de la peur'') is a 1953 French drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on a 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Line 14 ⟶ 15: Remade by William Friedkin as ''Sorcerer''. {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ ~~=== ''The Wages of Fear'' contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Byronic Hero]]: The main characters Mario and Jo are pretty terrible people (secondary protagonists Bimba and Luigi are a lot better), although their [[Affably Evil\|panache]] and [[Pet the Dog\|friendship for one another]] make them sympathetic. * [[Cool Old Guy]]: Jo. Line 24 ⟶ 23: * [[Dirty Coward]]: Jo reveals himself as one. * [[Driven to Suicide]]: Poor {{spoiler\|Bernando.}} * {{spoiler\|[[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: Nearly everyone. Luigi and Bimba's truck explodes in an incident we don't see. Mario and Jo drive up to inspect the aftermath, but they can't figure out what had caused it. Mario also dies in literally the last few seconds of the movie, in a mundane car crash on his joyride back to Las Piedras.}} * {{spoiler\|[[Downer Ending]]}}: {{spoiler\|Mario, the only driver to survive the trip to the oil field, is killed when he crashes his truck by driving recklessly on his way back to town; a trip he did not have to make.}} * [[Fat Bastard]]: O'Brien. Line 34 ⟶ 33: {{reflist}} {{Palme d'Or}} {{BAFTA Best Film}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wages of Fear, The}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Films of the 1950s]] [[Category:~~The~~French ~~Wages of Fear~~Cinema]] [[Category:~~Film~~The Criterion Collection]] [[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]] [[Category:Italian Films]] [[Category:Films Based on Novels]] [[Category:Films With Recuts]]