Highlights from THE WAGES OF FEAR (1978) re-edit of SORCERER (1977)

After William Friedkin's SORCERER bombed at the US box office, international distributor CIC enlisted British editor Jim Clark to completely re-edit the film, shortening it to 90 minutes, re-structuring the film so the introductions to the characters became flashbacks, re-integrating deleted footage that Friedkin filmed but deemed extraneous, dubbing some of the foreign-language dialogue into English, and finally re-titling the film THE WAGES OF FEAR, after the original novel and film it was based on. This was the only version of SORCERER released outside North America until only a few years ago. These are a few highlights from that version, showing some (though not all) of the alternate material. The video is from a German print, hence the non-English credit sequences.