The Wages of Fear4K Ultra HDGenre: World CinemaLabel: BFIDescription: Based on the 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur and critically hailed upon its original release The Wages of Fear propelled its director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques) to international fame and is rightly considered a classic of world cinema. In a squalid South American village four desperate men are hired by a US oil company to embark on a treacherous journey transporting a volatile cargo of nitro-glycerine to a massive oil well fire. Friendships and courage are pushed to the limit in this nail-biting thriller by a director who would go on to be dubbed the 'French Hitchcock'.