JUNESPLOITATION: The Wages of Fear (1953) (opens in new tab)

DAY 9. Thrillers! Forget your standard-issue action movies where the hero waltzes through gunfire with a quippy one-liner. Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear is the cinematic equivalent of a panic attack stretched across two and a half hours. It makes modern thrillers look like Sunday afternoon cartoons. We find our quartet of heroes — […]