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The Wages of Fear (1953): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Wages of Fear is a 1953 drama, thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 85 on Metacritic, 8.0 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 4 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 84 films from 1953 in our catalog and number 39 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Antonio Centa.

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