An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Stunts
Actual trucks actually crashing—no CGI, no safety nets, pure madness.
Acting
McGoohan's Red is cinema's most terrifying truck driver, full stop.
Direction
Endfield squeezes unbearable tension from gravel roads and gear shifts.
Director
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker
Tom Yately
Herbert Lom
Gino Rossi
Peggy Cummins
Lucy, Hawlett Trucking Secretary
Patrick McGoohan
C. 'Red' Redman
William Hartnell
Cartley, Hawlett Manager
Wilfrid Lawson
Ed, Hawlett Mechanic
Sidney James
Dusty, Truck Driver
Jill Ireland
Jill, Pull In Waitress
Alfie Bass
Tinker, Truck Driver
Gordon Jackson
Scottie
David McCallum
Jimmy Yately, Tom's brother
Sean Connery
Johnny Kates
Marjorie Rhodes
Ma West
Vera Day
Blonde at Dance
Marianne Stone
Nurse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The truck stunts were so dangerous that insurance companies refused coverage—producers just... didn't mention it.
This basically invented the 'trucker noir' subgenre that would peak with Duel and Sorcerer. You're welcome, Spielberg.
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