edwagreen The picture should have had the title of Danger Ahead.It's basically the story of truckers trying to get dangerous chemical moved to the new location.In the midst of all this, one of our truckers, who is substituting for his alcoholic brother, breaks out singing Rolling Along With A Breeze. That song was appropriate for the 1954 film "The Long Long Trailer with Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and Marjorie Main. It was ridiculous here to say the least.The film tries to reveal the personal lives of the truckers on this mission. It could have been certainly more exciting given the nature of the topic. Instead, we get explosions, death on the road, and a lot of broken bones.

dougdoepke This little B-movie may be a long way from its classic French predecessor The Wages of Fear (1953), but it still manages a few shudders. Six guys drive tanker trucks down a winding mountain road, with a load of rocket fuel. One false move and they're less than toast. Of course, there're the inevitable hazards-- a runaway bus, sloppy brakes, and who forgot to tighten the fuel valve, plus, a wild- driving kid (Garrison). Good thing Brian Keith's in charge. He's perfect for the blue-collar role, though poor Zimbalist Jr. looks a little lost, even as a professor doing double duty as a driver. Notice how they work the good-looking girls into a macho story-line. The movie knows its drive-in audience will get tired of the ugly guys. Also, the canny producers went out and got one of Hollywood's best actresses, Ann Doran, for the heavy-duty role of the Sarge's wife. And, if memory serves, the Kennedy Meadows road northwest of Lone Pine was used for the mountain hair-raiser scenes.Unfortunately, this is the type of solid little B-movie that would soon drive off into the sunset.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Remake of the 1953 spine tingling French action film "Wages of Fear" the film "Violent Road" has a pumped up with his python like muscles bursting in every direction, where later in the film he's forced to take his shirt off before it rips apart, Brian Keith as maverick trucker Mitch Barton. Barton is hired by Cyclone Rocket Company boss Mr. Nelson, Ed Prentiss, to drive a three truck convoy of dangerous and explosive rocket flue components across the desert to a new place where the company is re-located.Offered $5,000.00 for their work Barton doesn't have any trouble finding volunteers to drive the truck cross country through dangerous side road, thus avoiding population centers, to their destination. One of the truck drivers is the spaced out and guilt ridden George Lawrence played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. It's Lawrence who's in fact responsible for the fiery death of his entire family, as well as hundreds others, when a rocket that he had launched at the Cyclone Rocket Launch Center smashed into a nearby town killing everyone in it!The tense and dangerous ride has many short falls for Barton and his half dozen drivers where one of them the washed out and alcoholic US Marine Frank "Sarge" Miller, Dick Foran, loses his life trying to plug a valve that's leaking out dangerous chemicals in his truck. It's the last ten or so minutes when the action in the movie becomes almost unbearable to watch! With time and fuel running out Barton makes the choice to go all out and damn the toreadors or truck load of dangerous chemicals to make it to home base, the new Cyclone Rocket Plant, before the sun goes down. ***SPOILERS*** Predictable ending, if you saw either the movies "Wages of Fear" or it's later , after "Violent Road", re-make the 1977 thriller "Sorcerer" in the final outcome of the ride into and out of hell by Mitch Barton & Co. But It's the final few minutes in the movie that were far more uplifting then in the two other far more superior films about the same subject.

Raegan Butcher While I can't say I prefer this film to either Wages of Fear or Sorcerer, I agree that it is pretty enjoyable. Some of the wisecracks and banter are pure 1950's hard-boiled pulp, and Brian Keith has never been better as a certain type of swaggering man's man particular to that Era."Walker would shrink his own mother's head for a dollar.""I'm not allergic to a buck, either." "You pull a stunt like that again I'll rub yer head in the sand til its hamburger!" While all of this is certainly amusing in a time capsule kind of way, the film itself plays like the storyboards to a much more tension-filled film. Compared to the trials and tribulations undergone by the doomed men in both Wages of Fear and Sorcerer, the journey in Violent Road is rather muted. But still, an enjoyable way to spend an hour and twenty eight minutes.