Original title (FR): Le salaire de la peur
Four down-on-their-luck individuals are hired to drive trucks laden with nitroglycerine through the mountains as part of an operation to extinguish an oil well fire.
Original novel: Le salaire de la peur, by Georges Arnaud (1950) Original film trailer: The Wages of Fear (FR: Le Salaire de la peur), dir Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953) American remake trailer: Sorcerer, dir William Friedkin (1977)