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Violent Road (1958)

Violent Road poster
Directed by
Howard W. Koch
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of men are hired to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over rough roads. The trucks could explode at any moment.

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What happens

Violent Road, also known as Hell's Highway, is a 1958 American film directed by Howard W. Koch, written by Richard H. Landau, and starring Brian Keith, Dick Foran, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Merry Anders, Sean Garrison and Joanna Barnes. A remake of The Wages of Fear, it was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 11, 1958. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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