Hell Drivers

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Hell Drivers

1957

1h 31m

Drama

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Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy (Peggy Cummins) and Gino (Herbert Lom), who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 4/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

It reaches its highest degree of load in the truck sequences where Stanley Baker demonstrates his driving skills, but sometimes it crosses uneven roads. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 6/10

Jun 9, 2023

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

The thriller is appealing for its no-nonsense approach.

Rated: B

Aug 26, 2010

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Armond White

New York Press

The working-class personal/political tension leads to a splendidly drawn immigrant characterization by Herbert Lom and the human drama of Baker dangling from a precipice. Both remain memorable.

Aug 5, 2009

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 3/5

Aug 4, 2005

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nick s

Excepting the fast-forward vehicle scenes, this movie had a gritty and believable vibe. In some places the story dragged a little but overall it stayed on track. Certainly a different slice of life.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/27/24

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Audience Member

Gritty and realistic for its time, good storyline and good acting. Still enjoyable about 65 years on!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

Quite a wild ride! ??

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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s r

A frist class production with Sean Connery to boot. Great cast, direction, filming, and the story is a great time capsule of this type of work. Some of the plot was had gaps, but it still came together well.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Dated and rather pedestrian drama in which a stolid Stanley Baker joins a road haulage business and finds himself at immediate odds with Red, a fag-clenching Irishman (played by a wildly hammy Patrick McGoohan). Hilarious undercranked sequences of lorries racing around Buckinghamshire are leavened by good supporting performances from George Murcell, Sean Connery, Sid James, William Hartnell, and an excellent one by Herbert Lom as Baker's roommate and love rival.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

classic British film. excellent drama around the lives of a wild group of lorry drivers!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Charles De Latour

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Tom Yately

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Gino Rossi

Peggy Cummins

Lucy

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Synopsis

Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy (Peggy Cummins) and Gino (Herbert Lom), who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

Director: Charles De Latour
Producer: Benjamin Fisz, Earl St. John
Screenwriter: Charles De Latour, John Kruse
Production Co: The Rank Organization [gb]
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 25, 2016
Runtime: 1h 31m

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