William Friedkin’s Sorcerer: Still a Wild, White-Knuckle Ride Nearly 50 Years Later
release dateJune 1977directorWilliam FriedkinstarringRoy Scheider
Bruno Cremer
Francisco Rabal
Amidourating & Run TimePG / 2h 1mFun FactTangerine Dream composed the soundtrack, despite never seeing footage of the film. where to watchAmazon Prime
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You watch something like Sorcerer, and you keep telling yourself, “That wasn’t CGI, and that wasn’t special effects. They just did that with a truck!” From that perspective alone, William Friedkin’s 1977 thriller is one that continues to fascinate us gearheads, but it’s also a good movie in and of itself and nail-biting fun for everyone.
From Prologue to Porvenir
Sorcerer starts with four vignettes introducing the main characters: Nilo (Francisco Rabal), an elegantly dressed assassin who kills a man somewhere in Latin America. In Israel, Kassem (Hamidou Benmessaoud, best known as Amidou) is a terrorist who commits a bombing while in Paris, France. Victor Manzon (Bruno Cremer) is accused of fraud by the president of the Paris Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, an Irish gang robs a Catholic church connected with a rival Italian Mafia crew. During the getaway, the driver, Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), crashes but manages to escape.
After these crimi...
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