movie story The Wages of Fear (1953)
Le salaire de la peur (1953)
1950, in the very isolated metropolis of Las Piedras, in Southern Mexico. Surrounded through the desolate tract, the metropolis may be very bad, and additionally very quiet within the very hot noon solar. Located in the simplest avenue of the city, the bar «Corsario» is the meeting location for all of the eu who, for various reasons, located their way here and can't escape from the metropolis. Seated on chairs, however not drinking because they don't have any money, Frenchmen Mario (Yves Montand), German Smerloff (Jo Dest), American Dick and Italian Bernardo (Luis de Lima) are searching at the very few human beings walking in the road. The proprietor of the «Corsario», Hernandez (Dario Moreno), subsequently kicks them out of his bar.
Mario is mildly in love with Linda (Véra Clouzot), the waitress of the bar, who is additionally having sex with Hernandez. Another eu, Bimba (Peter van Eyck), a Dutchman, is doing a little menial work for Hernandez, like gathering the mail from the each day aircraft, the best link of Las Piedras with the outdoor international. Bernardo sneaks into Bimba's van, due to the fact he is continually searching for a pilot who would take him to america, a rustic for which he is conserving a legitimate visa.
A totally stylish Frenchman, Jo (Charles Vanel) is a number of the passengers leaving the aircraft. Honestly he is some other european walking far from some thing. He discreetly gives a few bucks to the immigration officer, who lets him stroll out of the airport with out a visa. He is taking a taxi to the town, in which he meets Mario. The 2 exiled compatriots without delay make friends with every other. We learn that Jo is from Paris, and Mario from Corsica. Jo explains to Mario that he gave his remaining dollars to the immigration officer, and Mario takes him to the «Corsario», wherein Hernandez, because of Jo's stylish outfit, thinks he's rich and pays for his taxi. Jo discreetly explains to Mario that he needed to depart Paris in no time, and failed to even had time to percent a suitcase.
Mario leaves Jo inside the «Corsario» to visit the small condo he stocks with Luigi (Folco Lulli), and devour the lunch Luigi has been solving for both of them. Luigi is an Italian, who, unlike the opposite eu expatriates, has a job : he works as a mason.
Then Mario goes again to the «Corsario», to percentage a Cognac with Jo. All the other european expatriates seem to be jealous of Mario's new pal. Jo, who does not like song, close off the radio, but Smerloff transfer it back on. Jo asks Hernandez to interchange it off. Feeling indignant, the expatriates depart the bar, making Hernandez very happy.
While they're gone, Mario tells Jo how tough it is to get a job on this poor remoted city. The aircraft being the most effective way to go away the city, and the plane being very expensive, the expatriates have no alternative than to stay and wait. There may be little possibility for employment other than the yank business enterprise that dominates the town, Southern Oil organisation (SOC), which operates the close by oil fields and owns a walled compound within the metropolis. SOC is suspected of unethical practices consisting of exploiting local workers and taking the law into its very own fingers, but the townspeople's dependence upon it is such that they suffer in silence.
However Jo is aware of the person in price of SOC in Las Piedras, invoice O'Brien (William Tubbs). They have being doing some no longer very legal stuff together a long term ago. And Jo is going to peer him in his workplace. However O'Brien can not do a issue for his vintage pal with out risking to free his own activity, because the huge Bosses of SOC could virtually get to know what Jo and invoice had performed collectively in the beyond.
In the following days, Jo and Mario become very close, which gets Luigi a bit jealous. And he isn't always the most effective one to be jealous. Linda also feels that Mario neglects her for Jo. But Luigi receives actual mad while Mario gives Jo one in every of Luigi's white trousers, after Jo's trousers were given ruined by using dust. Mario decides now not to live anymore with Luigi, however, earlier than leaving, he's taking with him his most treasured ownership, the final subway ticket he used whilst he left Paris.
Inside the nighttime, Luigi walks inside the «Corsario» wearing his high-quality fit, and sits on the expatriates' table, ignoring the opposite table, where Jo and Mario are sitting alone. He orders Champagne, and asks Linda to bounce with him. Jo tears the cord off the radio to stop the song, but Luigi maintains on dancing and clapping his hands, imitated via all the different expatriates, besides, of route, Jo and Mario. Jo takes the bottle of Champagne, shakes it violently, and then uncorks it and sprays the Champagne on Luigi and his pals. Luigi desires to hit Jo with the empty bottle, but Jo points a gun at him. Then, to push him to his restriction, Jo gives him the gun and slaps his face, but Luigi simply drops the gun and leaves the bar.
A massive hearth erupts at one of the SOC oil fields. O'Brien knows that the best manner to extinguish the flames is to reduce the fireplace at its base with an explosion caused by nitroglycerine. But the two hundred gallons inventory of nitroglycerine is at l. A. Piedras, and no longer at the oil subject. With the sort of short word and the dearth of right gadget, the explosive ought to be transported interior regulars jerry cans on the two fine vans available at the SOC headquarters and then pushed 300 miles away. Due to the negative condition of the roads and the incredibly volatile nature of nitroglycerine, the job is taken into consideration too dangerous for the unionized SOC employees. So O'Brien goes to invite a number of the ecu expatriates of Las Piedras to drive the vehicles. However, against the cynical advice of one in all his assistants, he is going to give each motive force $2000 to pressure the trucks ($2000 in 1950 might be almost $20000 in 2015).
All the expatriates pass a using check. Even Luigi, who simply learned that his lungs are full of cement, and that he has to stop working as a mason or he'll die very quickly. The first one to skip the take a look at is Bernardo. He's using a small truck with O'Brien sitting subsequent to him and all the other men collected behind the truck. One of the men throws his jacket at the windshield and Bernardo, apprehensive, slams on the breaks. Handiest 4 men get the task : Bimba, Luigi, Mario and Smerloff. All of the guys go away O'Brien's office except Jo, who's a bit mad now not to have been picked up by means of his vintage «buddy». O'Brien tells him that Jo is like him : a piece too antique for that form of task, but he additionally tells him that if one of the drivers desists on the final minute, he'll get the activity.
Hernandez gives a drink to the drivers. Bernardo trusts a letter for his mother to Linda for her to mail it the subsequent morning, and then he goes out the bar and hangs himself on a tree in the garden.
At 3:00 am next morning, Mario, Bimba and Luigi are amassed in O'Brien's office, watching for Smerloff. Jo walks in to say goodbye to Mario, and appears genuinely surprised approximately Smerloff's absence. Luigi points out he changed into the closing one that become visible with Smerloff going out of the «Corsario». O'Brien, who knows Jo very well, understands that Smerloff has been killed by means of Jo, and, a piece reluctantly, offers him the riding activity.
Jo and Mario take the larger truck and leave first, the second truck leaving half of an hour later for safety purpose. However, before leaving, Jo checks meticulously his truck, to O'Brien's annoyance. Subsequently Jo climbs in the truck and Mario offers him his lucky subway price tag. Then Jo starts offevolved the truck and slowly leaves the SOC backyard. They move Las Piedras nevertheless asleep, besides for Linda who climbs on the truck footboard to mention goodbye to Mario, who kicks her far from the truck. Jo does not sense superb and thinks that his malaria can be coming lower back, however he does not need Mario to pressure.
After simplest 17 kilometers (10,5 miles) of very sluggish riding, Jo decides to prevent the truck and devour some thing, however Mario sees the alternative truck already coming behind them and tells Jo they must go away immediately. Jo begins riding again however he feels worse and worse or even vomits the coffee Mario gave him. They forestall the truck and the other truck joins them. Luigi has some very harsh phrases for Jo, and then comes to a decision it is better for him and Bimba to take the lead.
Luigi and Bimba attain what's referred to as «the washboard». Outside the woodland, wherein there are not any bushes to defend the road, the floor of the street has been wrinkled through the wind. For the vehicles not to dance on the street, they need to drive at 40 miles an hour minimum or at less than six miles an hour, the quality answer being of path to force at 40.
Whilst Luigi is maintaining the speed above forty, the engine starts having problems, and that they have to use a length of concrete close to a pipe-line pump to forestall the truck. They find that the problem with the engine is due to some gas-oil having been introduced to the regular gas commonly used by this kind of truck. They placed some sparkling pure gasoline inside the tank, but they realize that the duration of concrete is simply too quick to bring the truck to forty mph, in order that they must pressure the relaxation of the «washboard» at very slow speed. Before leaving, Luigi puts his big white handkerchief at the concrete for Mario and Jo to look it as a warning sign for hazard. But, as soon as they're gone, a nearby kid steals the handkerchief.
In the meantime, Jo is falling apart because of his worry, and he cannot bring the truck to forty mph, so Mario comes to a decision to pressure. He crosses the length of concrete at 40 mph, even as the kid waves to them with the stolen handkerchief. As they arrive near the end of the «washboard» segment, they see the headlights of the opposite truck in the distance. However Luigi's truck cannot pass above seven mph and Mario's truck can not move below 40 mph, or both vehicles start vibrating. But fortuitously, at the final seconds, Luigi's truck reaches the cease of the washboard and might speed up.
Luigi's truck begins hiking a mountain with many hairpin turns. Considered one of them is so tight that they have got to maneuver the truck and use a wooden platform built near the street. However the wooden is in part rotten, and the truck almost breaks through the platform. They sooner or later prevail their maneuver and resume their adventure on the road.
Whilst Jo sees the rotten platform, he desires to surrender, but Mario receives real mad at him and forces him to assist him and manual him at the same time as he maneuvers the truck. However Jo runs away in the mountain, and Mario has to do the whole maneuver with the aid of himself. When he eventually drives returned on the road, the rotten platform collapses behind him. He begins driving away, with out Jo, who runs after him on the street. Mario sooner or later takes Jo returned on board, however he could be very mad at him, and tells him very precisely what he thinks approximately him and his cowardice.
A massive boulder, which fell from the mountain, blocks the road. Bimba asks Luigi to dig a hole, about 30 inches deep, within the boulder, at the same time as he's going to siphon about one liter of nitroglycerine out of a can, and right into a Thermos bottle. Mario and Jo be a part of them, and Bimba asks them to transport both vans as a ways as feasible from the boulder. Then they all cover at the back of rocks far away from the boulder, besides Bimba. Very slowly, he pours the explosive into the hollow in the boulder. Then he ties a hammer above the hole with an extended wick. Along with his cigarette, he lighting fixtures the quit of the wick and runs to hide behind a rock. The boulder explodes. Bimba, Luigi and Mario congratulate every different and, to celebrate, they go and take a piss collectively, no longer even pronouncing a phrase to Jo, who pisses alone.
Luigi is riding his truck, even as Bimba is shaving and telling Luigi about his father being murdered with the aid of the Nazis, and himself being pressured to work for 3 years in a salt mine. In the meantime, Jo, who calmed down a piece, is rolling a cigarette for Mario, once they see an explosion similarly away on the road. They right away understand it's Luigi and Bimba's truck. Jo runs out of the truck, but Mario catches him back, hits him very hard and brings him lower back to the truck.
Mario and Jo arrive at the scene of the explosion most effective to discover a huge crater rapidly filling with oil from a pipeline ruptured within the blast. Jo walks in front of the truck to help Mario navigate via the oil-stuffed crater. The truck, but, is in danger of turning into slowed down and for the duration of his frantic attempts to prevent it from getting caught, Mario runs over Jo. Even though Mario in the end succeeds in getting the truck out of the the muck, Jo is mortally wounded. He dies just earlier than they reach the burning oil subject. On his arrival on the oil area, Mario is hailed as a hero, however he collapses from exhaustion when he gets out of the truck.
Upon his recuperation, Mario heads home in the identical truck, now empty. The SOC gives him double wages, his and Jo's. Mario jubilantly drives down the mountain road, at the same time as a celebration is being held on the «Corsario», where Mario's friends eagerly look forward to his arrival. The radio plays Johann Strauss' «The Blue Danube», each at the «Corsario» and in Mario's truck. Linda dances with Mario's friends and Mario dances recklessly along with his truck. He is taking one corner too rapid and plunges via the guardrail to his death, keeping his fortunate subway price ticket in his hand. At the equal moment, Linda, as if she knew what simply befell, all of sudden faints within the palms of the man she became dancing with.
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