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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 24 June, 1977 DVD Release : 17 November, 1998 |
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Sorcerer description Following the blockbuster success of The Exorcist, director William Friedkin had the clout to make any film he wanted, and he nearly ruined his career making Sorcerer, an ill-fated remake of the classic French thriller The Wages of Fear. Given the big-budget treatment that Friedkin could command, the original plot remains unchanged ... review details |
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| I first saw "Sorcerer" when 14, and I thought it was terrible. In my 40s, I see it differently as a mirror on reality and as a great movie.
Whatever your current problems, they aren't as bad as those of the principal characters in this movie. They are four men who are refugees from greater society (a terrorist, a man wanted for high-stakes financial malfeasance, a petty criminal wanted by the Mob, and a professional assassin). They all flee to a nasty South American back water town, and then the sabotage of an industial facility 200 miles distant causes an oil well fire. Dynamite to put out the fire is located near the back water town, but it is very old and copiously leaching nitroglycerine. It has to be driven the 200 miles over truly bad third-world mountain-and-jungle roads, and the only available vehicles are a scrap heap of ancient trucks. The company asks for volunteers, and the four get selected. They cobble together two working trucks, and then the road trip begins. What's great about the movie is watching how the men react to the enormous stress placed on them by the task they've accepted and how it tears them apart. They are beset by truly awful conditions (old and rotten rope-and-wood bridges, giant trees across the road, endless rain, crumbling mountainside roads, bandits, ec.) that take an enormous toll on the participants. It ends with the Roy Scheider character, clearly insane, hand-carrying the dynamite to the fire fighters. There is no happy ending here for anyone. This was the movie William Freidkin made after "The Exorcist." Called, "The toughest, most relentless film in a long time" by a contemporary Newsweek review, it lives up to that and more. The score by synthesizer band Tangerine Dream helps propel the story along. It is a great adventure movie. |
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