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Hell Drivers (1957)

Hell Drivers poster
Directed by
Cy Endfield
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An ex-convict gets a job driving trucks for a haulage company. He finds the workplace is run by a violent bully and corrupt bosses.

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What happens

Hell Drivers is a 1957 British film noir crime drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. It was written by Endfield and John Kruse, and produced by the Rank Organisation and Aqua Film Productions. A recently released convict takes a driver's job at a haulage company and encounters violence and corruption. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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