Sorcerer
Director: William Friedkin
Genre: Cult, Existentialism, Suspense, New Hollywood, Action/Adventure, Action, Crime Thriller, Crime Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Adventure Drama, Drama
Year: 1977
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, Spanish Language, German Language, French Language
Starring: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell, Joe Spinell, Karl John, Friedrich von Ledebur, Chico MartÃnez, Amidou
Sorcerer is a 1977 thriller adventure film, produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. It is the second remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear).
Sorcerer followed Friedkin's highly successful The French Connection and The Exorcist. The budget was estimated at over $22 million, a substantial sum at the time. The film gained a fairly positive critical reception but with a reported gross of $12 million, the film did not recoup its costs. The film was co-produced by Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, with Universal handling U.S. distribution and Paramount handling the international release.
Sorcerer is notable for its electronic score by Tangerine Dream, which was the group's first Hollywood film score and led to their becoming popular soundtrack composers of the '80s.
Four international criminals on the run from the law hide out in a remote village in Nicaragua whose economy is dependent on a major oil company.
An oil well over 200 miles away has caught fire and can be extinguished only with explosives. The criminals are given a chance to earn a great deal of money, no questions
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