This stark and shocking exposé, director Cy Endfield's first film for the prestigious Rank Organization, sees out-of-work ex-convict Stanley Baker take a job with a trucking company, whose drivers are expected to make so many trips in a day they become a collective high-speed menace on the narrow country roadways. This British version of the film restores many minutes cut from the American release.
35mm, b/w, 108 min. Production: The Rank Organization Film Productions Ltd. Distribution: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. Producer: S. Benjamin Fisz. Director: Cy Endfield (as C. Raker Endfield). Based on a short story by John Kruse. Screenwriter: John Kruse, Cy Endfield (as C. Raker Endfield). Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth. Editor: John D. Guthridge. Composer: Hubert Clifford. With: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell.
