1957 · thriller · noir · trucking
Hell Drivers
Directed by Cy Endfield1h 48m1957
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Our read: Hell Drivers (1957) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · noir · trucking entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / noir, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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