Sorcerer

film by Friedkin [1977]

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Sorcerer is a 1977 American thriller film directed by William Friedkin. The movie follows four men who are forced to flee their homelands and find themselves in a South American jungle, where they agree to undertake a perilous mission transporting volatile dynamite. This film is noted for its arduous and expensive on-location filming in Central America. Despite its challenging production, Sorcerer was not a critical or commercial success. It is a stylistic departure from Friedkin's earlier, highly acclaimed films like The French Connection and The Exorcist.12

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The thriller Sorcerer (1977)—which took years to complete because of the arduous and expensive on-location filming in the jungles of Central America—failed both critically and commercially. He rebounded slightly with the modest The Brink’s Job (1978), a caper starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, and Gena Rowlands. However,…
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The thriller Sorcerer (1977)—which took years to complete because of the arduous and expensive on-location filming in the jungles of Central America—failed both critically and commercially. He rebounded slightly with the modest The Brink’s Job (1978), a caper starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, and Gena Rowlands. However,…
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