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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   2,252 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Walon Green (screenplay)
Georges Arnaud (novel)
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Release Date:
24 June 1977 (USA) more
Plot:
A group of outcasts from different backgrounds/nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Sorcerer more (72 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Roy Scheider ... Scanlon - 'Dominguez'
Bruno Cremer ... Victor Manzon - 'Serrano'
Francisco Rabal ... Nilo
Amidou ... Kassem - 'Martinez'
Ramon Bieri ... Corlette
Peter Capell ... Lartigue
Karl John ... 'Marquez'
Friedrich von Ledebur ... 'Carlos' (as Fredrick Ledebur)
Chico Martínez ... Bobby Del Rios (as Chico Martinez)
Joe Spinell ... Spider
Rosario Almontes ... Agrippa
Richard Holley ... Billy White
Anne-Marie Deschott ... Blanche (as Anne Marie Descott)
Jean-Luc Bideau ... Pascal
Jacques François ... Lefevre (as Jacques Francois)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Wages of Fear
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Runtime:
121 min | Sweden:93 min | Japan:92 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The oil fire was created by pumping up thousands of gallons of No. 2 diesel fuel as well as raw propane into the air ignited. Once the fire started it was so hot that no one could get within fifty feet of it. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The monetary amount paid to the drivers is inconsistent throughout the film. The oil company first says they will pay "8,000 pesos to each driver". The driver's later demand double that amount (which would be 16,000 pesos). Later when Scanlon crosses the rope bridge he boasts that the two of them will get "double shares of 20,000 apiece" (double shares would actually be 32,000 apiece). At the end, Scanlon is given a check for 40,000 Pesos which would only amount to 10,000 per driver. more
Quotes:
Carlo Ricci: He robbed my church, shot my brother. I don't care where he is or what it costs. I want his ass. more
Soundtrack:
I'll Remember April more

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11 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Sorcerer, 27 March 2004
9/10
Author: 24_frames from london

Firstly this is a great film, I've always thought that, even though the original Wages of Fear is my all time favourite film. Roy Scheider is at his best in Sorcerer, totally believable at all times, if ever a man deserved a gong it was Roy.

A question: 1.How many versions of this film are there? I've seen at least two: the US DVD (sadly just full frame and panned and scanned), and a perhaps longer TV version that was shown on UK TV circa 1981-82. The DVD starts with a close up of a stone statue, the TV version with a long helicopter shot over the jungle with Tangerine Dream's excellent score. The group are credited at the beginning in red titles. The TV version also has one of the oil bosses describe the area as the 'Devil's Asshole!' the endings are different as well (I won't mention what happens in either just in case you haven't seen the movie) Perhaps one day Billy Friedkin will re-release this film in a package that it deserves and Mark Kermode will have something to talk about apart from the Excorcist :)

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