The Wages of Fear (1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot · Cinematography by Armand Thirard
156 min58 frames
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What is The Wages of Fear about?
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
The Wages of Fear is a 1953 thriller film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from Georges Arnaud's 1950 novel of the same name, and starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot. The film centres on a group of four down-on-their-luck European men who are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks, loaded with nitroglycerin needed to extinguish an oil well fire, over mountain dirt roads.
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Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of The Wages of Fear leans on medium shots (52% of the sample) and full-body frames (17%). Cinematographer Armand Thirard keeps 55% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 69% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 62% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Wages of Fear (1953) are #020202, #aeaeae, #f9f9f9, #303030, #4b4b4b, #757474 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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