Highlights from THE WAGES OF FEAR (1978) re-edit of SORCERER (1977)
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After William Friedkin's SORCERER bombed at the US box office, international distributor CIC enlisted British editor Jim Clark to completely re-edit the film, shortening it to 90 minutes, re-structuring the film so the introductions to the characters became flashbacks, re-integrating deleted footage that Friedkin filmed but deemed extraneous, dubbing some of the foreign-language dialogue into English, and finally re-titling the film THE WAGES OF FEAR, after the original novel and film it was based on. This was the only version of SORCERER released outside North America until only a few years ago. These are a few highlights from that version, showing some (though not all) of the alternate material. The video is from a German print, hence the non-English credit sequences.
Sorcerer
Four 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.

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