Sorcerer
Following the adventures and dramatic events of the 'Sorcerer', group of outcast from different nationalities, who work in an oil-drilling process in south America, try to make a new life after the fire burns out of control. They forced to transport six crates of dynamite to buy their freedom and earn a lot of money.
28 October 1936, New York City, New York, USA
6 April 1927, Manhattan, New York, USA
2 February 1945
3 June 1900, Nisko, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Nisko, Podkarpackie, Poland]
15 August 1929, USA
2 August 1935, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
24 March 1905, Cologne, Germany
16 June 1929, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
6 October 1929, Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
28 November 1924, Lyon, Rhône, France
7 December 1933, New York, USA
19 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 March 1926, Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
1 October 1940, Geneva, Switzerland
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
10 November 1932, Orange, New Jersey, USA
16 May 1920, Paris, France
April 21, 2014
Is it any wonder the film slipped into obscurity almost immediately after release? With the number of issues that pile up by the end of these two hours, an incredibly misleading title ends up being the least of its worries.April 08, 2014
It's easy to be repelled by the film's relentless bleakness, but it's even easier to be entranced by its immense scale, impeccable craft and astonishing suspense.March 06, 2014
Breathtaking in its cinematography, production design and sound work, Sorcerer is a worthy contender for the film with the most suspenseful set-pieces in Hollywood history - if such an arbitrary title existed.April 29, 2014
[...] a defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history.May 16, 2008
William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear.May 04, 2014
...a palpably overlong drama that's rife with superfluous scenes and subplots...January 26, 2006
Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour.May 27, 2014
First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics.April 22, 2014
Over the years, a certain mystique has surrounded Friedkin's dark tale, as is so often the case with lost films. Unlike many of them, though, Sorcerer delivers.May 20, 2011
The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie.May 23, 2014
Friedkin's cyclical, almost Kafkaesque insistence that politics revolves around now globalized, corporate power delegating hired guns to do under-the-table bidding across national boundaries announces itself through the soundscape.May 28, 2014
By the time Sorcerer gets around to its rain-soaked, rickety-bridge set piece, you'll either be obsessed or fully checked out. Give yourself a chance to pick sides.