Directed by William Friedkin — Screenplay by Walon Green.

Based on Georges Arnaud’s French novel Le Salaire de la peur, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer follows four very different individuals from all over the world– the Mexican assassin named Nilo (played by Francisco Rabal), a Palestinian militant named Kassem (played by Amidou), a French investment banker named Victor Manzon (played by Bruno Cremer), and an Irish-American gang member and driver named Jackie Scanlon (played by Roy Scheider) — as they all eventually find themselves in a remote village in Colombia. Here they are all trying to hide away from their old lives, and they desperately want to build new lives for themselves. However, their wages are insufficient. However, one day a lucrative job becomes available as an oil well has exploded. An American oil company now needs four drivers to risk life and limb by driving highly unstable dynamite through the unpaved jungles of Colombia. Of course, the film’s four leads line up to take part in the risky endeavor.

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