Universal-Paramount
Directed by William Friedkin
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Four men flee to a poverty stricken village in Central America, each in trouble for different reasons. Roy Scheider is running from the mob after a robbery goes wrong. He works for an oil company, lives in a run down shack and spends his spare time drinking. When one of the oil wells is sabotaged, he takes a job driving a truck full of nitro glycerin across jungles, swamps and mountains. Friedkin's chase scene in his previous film, The French Connection, is one of the most famous, but here he takes it to another level: a truck full of nitro crossing a swollen river on a worn out rope bridge during a driving rainstorm. The tension is palpable and real, elements missing in today's CGI driven spectacles, where this stunt would not even be attempted.
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