Sorcerer (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Roy Scheider
Jackie Scanlon / 'Juan Dominguez'
Bruno Cremer
Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
Francisco Rabal
Nilo
Amidou
Kassem / 'Martinez'
Ramon Bieri
Corlette
Peter Capell
Lartigue
Karl John
'Marquez'
Friedrich von Ledebur
'Carlos'
Chico Martínez
Bobby del Rios
Joe Spinell
Spider
Rosario Almontes
Agrippa
Richard Holley
Billy White / Pilot
Anne-Marie Deschodt
Blanche
Jean-Luc Bideau
Pascal
Jacques François
Lefevre
André Falcon
Guillot
Gerard Murphy
Donnelly / Production Manager / Unit Manager
Desmond Crofton
Boyle
Henry Diamond
Murray
Ray Dittrich
Ben
Frank Gio
Marty
Randy Jurgensen
Vinnie
Cosmo 'Gus' Allegretti
Carlo Ricci
Walon Green
Screenplay
Louis DiGiaimo
CastingDirector
William Friedkin
Director / Producer / Screenplay
Georges Arnaud
Novel
John Box
Production Design
John M. Stephens
Director of Photography
Bud S. Smith
Editor / Associate Producer
Dick Bush
Director of Photography
Robert K. Lambert
Editor / Music Editor
Larry Carow
Sound Editor
Colin C. Mouat
Sound Editor
Robert Knudson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Roy Walker
Art Direction
Gary Alexander
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Roger Sword
Sound Editor
Aaron Levy
Sound Designer
Robert W. Laing
Set Decoration
Anthony Powell
Costume Design
George Resler
Grip
Robert Glass
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Roberto Bakker
Production Manager
Nanette Siegert
Production Secretary
Marvin Peck
Technical Advisor
Bernie Schwartz
Grip
Ken Pattenden
Construction Coordinator
Richard Tyler
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jim Sheppherd
Grip
Louis De Giamo
Casting Director
Albert M. Shapiro
Second Assistant Director
Barry Bedig
Property Master
Bill Kenney
Grip
Gaylin P. Schultz
Key Grip
Bud Ekins
Stunt Coordinator
Doug Millett
Construction Coordinator
Mike Weathers
Best Boy Lighting Technician
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Thanks
Miguel Gil
Second Assistant Director
Pat Blymyer
Gaffer
Mark Johnson
Second Assistant Director
Jean-Louis Ducarme
Sound Recordist
Lesley W. Tomkins
Draughtsman
Newt Arnold
First Assistant Director
Robert Norin
Makeup Artist
Ned Humphreys
Assistant Editor
Paul Roedl
Assistant Accountant
Charles A. Ogle
Production Accountant
Cynthia Scheider
Assistant Editor
Gene Anderson
Assistant Property Master
Jere Huggins
Assistant Editor
Charles L. Campbell
Sound Effects Editor
John Franco
Script Supervisor
Scott Matthews
Other
Toni St. Clair Lilly
Other
Ben Nye Jr.
Makeup Artist
Jean-Guy Jacques
Title Designer
Luis Llosa
Producer's Assistant
Ron Nagle
Other
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 24, 1977
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 1m
Content RatingPG
Budget$22,000,000
Box Office$9,000,000
Filming LocationsNew Jersey, United States
Genres
Wiki.
Sorcerer is a 1977 American thriller film directed and produced by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. The second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur, it has been widely considered a remake of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear, although Friedkin disagreed with this assessment. The plot depicts four outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is 'sweating' its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin.Sorcerer was originally conceived as a side-project to Friedkin's next major film, The Devil's Triangle, with a modest US$2.5 million budget. The director later opted for a bigger production, which he thought would become his legacy. The cost of Sorcerer was earmarked at $15 million, escalating to $22 million following a troubled production with various filming locations—primarily in the Dominican Republic—and conflicts between Friedkin and his crew. The mounting expenses required the involvement of two major film studios, Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, with both studios sharing the U.S. distribution and Cinema International Corporation being responsible for the international release.The film received generally negative reviews upon its release. Its domestic (including rentals) and worldwide gross of $5.9 million and $9 million respectively did not recoup its costs. A considerable number of critics, as well as Friedkin himself, attributed the film's commercial failure to its release at roughly the same time as Star Wars, which instantly became a pop-culture phenomenon.The film has enjoyed a critical re-evaluation and some critics have lauded it as an overlooked masterpiece, perhaps "the last undeclared [one] of the American '70s". Friedkin considered Sorcerer among his favorite works, and the most personal and difficult film he ever made. Tangerine Dream's electronic music score was also acclaimed, leading the band to become popular soundtrack composers in the 1980s. After a lengthy lawsuit filed against Universal Studios and Paramount, Friedkin supervised a digital restoration of Sorcerer, with the new print premiering at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2013. Warner Home Video released the film remastered on Blu-ray on April 22, 2014.