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Sorcerer

Cast

Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou View All


Crew

Walon Green (Screenplay), William Friedkin (Director) View All

Release: Jun. 24th, 1977
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
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Jack1
The bridge scene, in particular - for which the film is mostly known, is extremely tense, forming the best scene in the film by some distance for me.
Citizen Rules
Real trucks, real bridge, real river in the real jungle.
Joel
The film looked really beautiful with most scenes in some exotic location - interiors sometimes looking more exotic, and Tangerine Dream's minimalist score was kind of neat (if underwhelming), but I just couldn't feel the weight that was so clearly trying to break through like the tires of those lab....
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