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Sorcerer

“Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.”

19772h 2mDir William Friedkin7.5TMDB
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Top Cast

27 total
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
as Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
Bruno Cremer
Bruno Cremer
as Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal
as Nilo
Amidou
Amidou
as Kassem / 'Martinez'
Ramon Bieri
Ramon Bieri
as Corlette
Peter Capell
Peter Capell
as Lartigue
Karl John
Karl John
as 'Marquez'
Friedrich von Ledebur
Friedrich von Ledebur
as 'Carlos'
The scene we cut

The bridge

No CGI. A real truck, a real rope bridge, a real river in flood. The most dangerous scene ever shot.

The bridge cost around a million dollars to build and the river it was built over dried up, so the whole thing was taken apart and rebuilt in Mexico. Friedkin ran the trucks over it for real and the drivers went into the water more than once.

All the scenes we have cut
On Film Fanatics

Where Sorcerer shows up.

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Inferno
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Panic in the Streets
Panic in the Streets
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Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die
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