The Wages of Fear (1953, Fr/It.) (aka Le Salaire de la Peur)

In director Henri-Georges Clouzot's suspenseful adventure thriller:

• the depiction of the treacherous, death-defying mission by truck driver Mario (Yves Montand) and three others (for $2,000 wages) of driving two trucks with highly-explosive nitroglycerine across rough terrain and a tightly-angled road (with a rotting wooden back-up platform) in Central America - to put out an oil well fire 300 miles away