Movie
Sorcerer is a 1977 American action thriller film produced and directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. It is the second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 novel The Wages of Fear, following the 1953 French-language film. Although it is often considered a remake of the earlier film, Friedkin disagreed with this assessment, considering it another adaptation of…
↗ WikipediaLongform community posts about this title
Sorcerer is a film I have seen mentioned across the entirety of the Internet at this point. Accompanied by one specific image featuring a bridge and a huge truck. For the longest time, that was the entirety of my knowledge of it. It's a film I let slide by for a very, very long time for no particular reason, and having started going through William Friedkin's library, I figured it was finally time to dive in and see…More
No comments yet — be the first.
I usually prefer original movies over remakes, first films in a series over sequels to that film and so on. But there are, of course, exceptions. This is one of these exceptions. Although, I must admit that this is actually a remake from a classic - and apparently very good - French film from the fifties. Namely, Le Salaire de la Peur. A movie that I've never seen. NOTE TO SELF: Go watch that film By now, 41 years a…More
More from the same genre
