The Wages of Fear - out on BFI Blu-ray & DVD now | BFI

The original French theatrical cut of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s white-knuckle masterpiece - newly restored in 4K - is available now on Dual Format Edition Blu-ray & DVD Subscribe: ’A masterpiece of suspense’ Christopher Nolan (Director of Dunkirk). Based on the 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur and critically hailed upon its release, The Wages of Fear propelled its director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques) to international fame, and is rightly considered a classic of world cinema. In a squalid South American village, four desperate men are hired by an American oil company to embark on a treacherous journey, transporting a volatile cargo of nitro-glycerine to a massive oil well fire. Friendships and courage are pushed to the limit in this nail-biting thriller by a director who would go on to be dubbed the ‘French Hitchcock’. Watch more on the BFI Player: htt