The film inspired Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.  The black-and-white adventure is set in Las Piedras, a Latin American oil town controlled by the Southern Oil Company.  
The film inspired Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.  The black-and-white adventure is set in Las Piedras, a Latin American oil town controlled by the Southern Oil Company.  Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, and Peter van Eyck star as four European drifters hired to transport two truckloads of liquid nitroglycerin 300 miles.  The film's most famous sequence requires the drivers to turn around on a rickety, half-finished timber platform high above a mountain range.  FTP identify this 1953 work directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
The film inspired Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.  The black-and-white adventure is set in Las Piedras, a Latin American oil town controlled by the Southern Oil Company.  
Le Salaire de la peur or The Wages of Fear