Released 1953
Stars Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck, Vera Clouzot
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

French thriller about four desperate men, who are broke and stranded in a backwater of Latin America. They sign up for a suicidal mission to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerin 300 miles down a hazardous road. The nitro is needed by an American oil company that exploits the local workers. Much of the anti-American sentiment was cut originally for the U.S. version in 1953, but it's restored in the director's cut.