Essential Cinema: This Nation's Saving Grace: Discoveries From the Golden Age of British Cinema

HELL DRIVERS

Directed by Cy Endfield

UK, 1957, 1h 48min, 35mm

Essential Cinema: This Nation's Saving Grace: Discoveries From the Golden Age of British Cinema

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​​“An energetic and violent trucking thriller marked by the raw, angry edge of the best of blacklist victim Endfield’s Hollywood work and by his appreciation of the markedly out-of-the-mainstream talent of Stanley Baker.”
—Time Out

As rough and tough as it gets. The great Welsh actor Stanley Baker plays an unemployable ex-con who gets a job at a distinctly unfriendly trucking company transporting rocks in overloaded trucks on impossible schedules alongside other desperadoes. Inevitably, he clashes with the alpha-dog driver, played by Patrick McGoohan, a psychotically competitive and vengeful lunatic. Lots of terrifying road action and a great cast including Herbert Lom and a pre-stardom Sean Connery. In 35mm.

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