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10 May 1958 (USA)
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Warners launches the year's rocket entertainment sensation! more
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Truck drivers take cargo of explosives over bumpy mountain road. | add synopsis
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"Drivers Wanted. Dangerous Work. High Pay."
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Brian Keith | ... | Mitch Barton |
| Dick Foran | ... | Frank 'Sarge' Miller |
 | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | ... | George Lawrence |
| Merry Anders | ... | Carrie - The Girl in the Convertible |
| Sean Garrison | ... | Ken Farley |
| Joanna Barnes | ... | Peg Lawrence |
| Perry Lopez | ... | Manuelo |
| Arthur Batanides | ... | Ben |
| Ed Prentiss | ... | Mr. Nelson |
| Ann Doran | ... | Edith Miller |
| John Dennis | ... | Pat Farley |
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Hell's Highway
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86 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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If we run out of oil, we'll spit in the engine.
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Version of Le salaire de la peur (1953)
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Breezing Along With The Breeze
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While I can't say I prefer this film to either Wages of Fear or Sorcerer, I agree that it is pretty enjoyable. Some of the wisecracks and banter are pure 1950's hard-boiled pulp, and Brian Keith has never been better as a certain type of swaggering man's man particular to that Era.
"Walker would shrink his own mother's head for a dollar."
"I'm not allergic to a buck, either."
"You pull a stunt like that again I'll rub yer head in the sand til its hamburger!"
While all of this is certainly amusing in a time capsule kind of way, the film itself plays like the storyboards to a much more tension-filled film. Compared to the trials and tribulations undergone by the doomed men in both Wages of Fear and Sorcerer, the journey in Violent Road is rather muted. But still, an enjoyable way to spend an hour and twenty eight minutes.