Roy Scheider, based on Wages of Fear.
Scheider is involved in a robbery in USA. He robs a church connected to the mob--the mob puts out a contract to kill him. He flees to Nicaragua. Poor, miserable . . . and a contract killer shows up. He takes his chance--driving a cargo of plastic explosives over a mountain to put out an oil well fire.
His would-be killer, though a series of events, becomes his co-driver. The other truck has a Frenchman involved in a financial scheme who has had to flee France. He, too, needs money to get out of the miserable little town.
Driving the trucks is the focus of last half of movie. Explosion at every turn is possible. Frenchman and his co-driver blow up when wheel comes off. Scheider's co-driver killed by bandits (Scheider and he have become respectful of one another.) Scheider carries the explosives in. He will get 40,000 pesos. He's about to fly out of the little town, with some hope, when a car pulls into the town. A new set of contract killers out to get him.
Probably lost a lot of tension on the home screen, but the movie was overly long.
Scheider is involved in a robbery in USA. He robs a church connected to the mob--the mob puts out a contract to kill him. He flees to Nicaragua. Poor, miserable . . . and a contract killer shows up. He takes his chance--driving a cargo of plastic explosives over a mountain to put out an oil well fire.
His would-be killer, though a series of events, becomes his co-driver. The other truck has a Frenchman involved in a financial scheme who has had to flee France. He, too, needs money to get out of the miserable little town.
Driving the trucks is the focus of last half of movie. Explosion at every turn is possible. Frenchman and his co-driver blow up when wheel comes off. Scheider's co-driver killed by bandits (Scheider and he have become respectful of one another.) Scheider carries the explosives in. He will get 40,000 pesos. He's about to fly out of the little town, with some hope, when a car pulls into the town. A new set of contract killers out to get him.
Probably lost a lot of tension on the home screen, but the movie was overly long.
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