That’s interesting. I was describing Sorcerer to a younger colleague last week. I don’t recall why it came up either. It is one of the best edge of the seat hair standing on the back of your neck movies ever made. It gave me a new respect for old cases of dynamite!
Strange how you don’t think of something for years, and then it’s everywhere. I need to see about getting Sorcerer from Netflix or somewhere. I think my wife would enjoy it too.
“It gave me a new respect for old cases of dynamite!”
One of my neighbors, a man about 70 yrs old, used to own a Quonset hut in Death Valley. He and a couple of younger friends were out nosing around the desert and spotted a wooden box at the bottom of a hill. The two younger guys went down to investigate. They tried to lift the lid and the box exploded, killing one instantly and doing a lot of damage to the other. My neighbor was standing on top of the hill and the explosion burned off his eyebrows, burned his face, burned his clothes. The explosion ‘set fire to the desert’ in one news account.
What they had found of course was a case of old dynamite. When manufactured the dynamite was a tube of compressed sawdust soaked in nitroglycerin. Not especially dangerous when new. But after sitting unmoved for decades the nitroglycerine had time to ooze out of the sawdust into a pool at the bottom of the box, and that is extremely dangerous.