Six men, three trucks, zero brakes on sanity — 1950s machismo goes boom.
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
Practical Effects
Genuine truck stunts before CGI made cowards of us all.
Direction
Koch squeezes every drop from a Poverty Row budget.
Director
Howard W. Koch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warner Bros. rushed this out to capitalize on Wages of Fear's art-house success without paying Clouzot a dime.
This is essentially the 1958 equivalent of a knockoff blockbuster — the Asylum before The Asylum existed.
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