Monday, May 24, 2021

The Wages of Fear

The Wages of Fear is a 1953 French film starring Yves Montand. This is shown with commercials, but I'm just happy to find it online:


The Guardian includes it in their list of best action and war films of all time, saying it "has no superior in the field of action-suspense". Roger Ebert has a positive review. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics consensus score of 100%.

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  1. I can't keep up with you

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    1. I do watch a lot of movies. I'm reading less now because of it though.

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  2. For all the critics to agree, it must have been a good movie.

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  3. ...as FDR said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself!"

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    1. And cultists. We need to fear the cultists.

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  4. It's definitely NOT a short film. It looks good from the first 10 minutes I watched. I'll see the rest tonight when there isn't so much internet traffic.

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    1. lol No, it's longer than I generally like.

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  5. That's highly praised!

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    1. Yes. I had never heard of it 'til it showed up on one of the lists I use.

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  6. Oh I know this is one Mr. M. would like. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. I watched it years ago. It was so engaging that I forgot there was subtitles.

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    1. I love it when that happens :) Sometimes I'll get up and go to the kitchen during a movie and _then_ realize I can't understand what they're saying because I had been reading subtitles lol

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  8. This sounds good, I will try to watch it. Valerie

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