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Sorcerer is a 1977 thriller and action film directed by William Friedkin, who also produced the movie. The screenplay was written by Walon Green, with Dick Bush serving as director of photography and Michel Colombier composing the score. The cast includes Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Hamidou Benmassoud. The film is based on the novel The Wages of Fear and was distributed by Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
The narrative is set in Venezuela, with filming taking place in New Jersey. The movie has a runtime of 122 minutes and carries a PG rating. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. The production budget was 22,000,000, resulting in a box office revenue of 9,000,000. Critical reception includes an 84% score, a 7.6 out of 10 rating, and a 68 out of 100 Metascore.
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7.4Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Cast
- Roy Scheider as Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
- Bruno Cremer as Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
- Francisco Rabal as Nilo
- Amidou as Kassem / 'Martinez'
- Ramon Bieri as Corlette
- Peter Capell as Lartigue
Themes
- life and death
- new jersey
- paris, france
- based on novel or book
- central and south america
- explosive
- dynamite
- car journey
- jerusalem
- cynicism
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
33,345 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
68/100
- Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- Mexico
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Screenwriter
- Walon Green
- Composer
- Michel Colombier
- Producer
- William Friedkin
- Narrative location
- Venezuela
- Filming location
- New Jersey
- Duration
- 121
- FilmAffinity ID
- 401559
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1982-04-12
- title
- Sorcerer
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- costume designer
- Anthony Powell
- distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- review score
- 68/100
- box office
- 12000000
- capital cost
- 21600000
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