The Wages of Fear / Sorcerer

1953 original and its 1977 remake

The Wages of Fear (1953)

A killer concept: after an hour of the grudges and alliances of deadbeat expats in South America, four of them are sent 300 miles across the impossible terrain driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin. 

I admire the film’s insistence not to use music, but I couldn’t help thinking that the whole enterprise would have been better ser…