Pretty much everyone in the movie behaves badly, and outcomes bear little relationships to what a particular character might deserve.
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Large rewards are offered, and soon we are getting to know those four drivers intimately as they pick their way slowly along the treacherous route. Then one day, a disaster strikes that promises escape for a “lucky” few: Four truck drivers are recruited to transport containers of nitroglycerine across rutted, washed-out backcountry roads to help put out an uncontrollable oil-well fire.
Most of them are unemployable but can’t afford to leave the country, so they drink and gamble and whore and start fights to pass the time. The tale is set in a grubby border town in South America – presumably Venezuela – where desperate men with dicey pasts tend to wash up, seeking work with the American-owned petroleum company that controls the local economy. I’ve never seen an action movie that outperforms The Wages of Fear as an edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thriller. The Wages of Fear ( Le salaire de la peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) Cane Toads: The Conquest, a much longer sequel – in 3-D, no less – was released in 2010, but I’ve yet to view it. Highly recommended, if you can get your hands on it. This is far and away the funniest documentary that you are ever likely to see. And there’s apparently a whole criminal subculture of Aussies who get high on dried toad skins, rolling them up and smoking them like joints. An adorable toddler dresses up one of the rubbery-looking toads in baby clothes. Some folks go out of their way to run them over with their cars, while others feed them cat kibble. With no natural enemies having evolved in Australia that can cope with its toxic skin glands, the toad population boomed, squeezing a number of native species out of their accustomed ecological niches.Ĭane Toads also explores conflicting public perceptions of the invasive critters among Australians. Unfortunately, the cane toad is nocturnal and the cane beetle diurnal, so never the twain did meet. A still from Cane Toads, an early doco by Mark LewisĬane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis, 1988)įeeling the need for an excursion to the Southern Hemisphere, where summertime is in full swing right now? You could hardly do better in under an hour than this hilariously sobering documentary about a pest-control experiment gone horribly awry in Queensland, Australia.īilled upon initial release as “ National Geographic meets Monty Python,” Cane Toads tracks the historical proliferation of these non-native amphibians, beginning with their introduction from Hawaii in 1935 as an intended predator to the cane beetle.
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