Anthony Quinn for once plays his actual nationality in this Hollywood hokum shot in Mexico but which cautiously declares it's setting 'South America'.
The title song by Frankie Laine set to music by Dimitri Tiomkin was probably added to liven up the film; but keeps promising more than the film can deliver and gets annoying after a while. The basic situation of 'The Wages of Fear' is dashed off in just fifteen minutes before the movie finally fully displays it's biggest asset - Barbara Stanwyck on horseback in jodhpurs with a riding crop - when it finally gets interesting. (But your attention still wanders during the continued, dismayingly lengthy, stretches when she's not about.)
The title song by Frankie Laine set to music by Dimitri Tiomkin was probably added to liven up the film; but keeps promising more than the film can deliver and gets annoying after a while. The basic situation of 'The Wages of Fear' is dashed off in just fifteen minutes before the movie finally fully displays it's biggest asset - Barbara Stanwyck on horseback in jodhpurs with a riding crop - when it finally gets interesting. (But your attention still wanders during the continued, dismayingly lengthy, stretches when she's not about.)