Violent Road

1958

Action / Adventure / Drama

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IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 411 411

exploding truck volunteer remake desert truck driver dangerous mission

Plot summary

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.

Director

Howard W. Koch Photo
Howard W. Koch

Top cast

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Photo
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as George Lawrence
Brian Keith Photo
Brian Keith as Mitch Barton
John Dennis Photo
John Dennis as Pat Farley
Ann Doran Photo
Ann Doran as Edith Miller
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795.55 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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59.94 fps
1 hr 26 min
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1.44 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
59.94 fps
1 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by raegan_butcher 6 / 10

"Drivers Wanted. Dangerous Work. High Pay."

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.
Reviewed by Hup234! 9 / 10

Danger and tension as truckers haul volatile rocket fuel across desert terrain.

Brian Keith, with his patented wry and cynical wit, is perfectly cast to lead the heavy truck convoy of desperate men hauling explosive cargo in a race against time. This is a plot similar to "The Wages Of Fear (1954) and "Sorcerer" (1975), so it couldn't help but be a nailbiter if done well...and it is. But the script resists the temptation to lay down wall-to-wall action in favor of good character development through flashbacks, a well-used device but an effective one. Leith Stevens provides a good music score, even accompanying a trucker as he drives along singing "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" (before the inevitable problems begin, naturally). Violent Road was filmed near Lone Pine, California, with plenty of shots of crumbling cliffs, laboring diesel engines, spinning tires...all the neat stuff that cinema-action fans like, but with enough celluloid devoted to getting us to know the men behind the steering wheels and why they wanted the job to begin with. Recommended for all.
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