which is indeed one of the all time greats
which is indeed one of the all time greats
I watch that film often. It is a truly great film. One of the dozen’s of times I have seen it was on a UHF channel in Milwaukee many moons ago. Very poor film print was running, and during the final sequence where he is in essence dancing with the truck, swerving from side to side, while the film intercuts to the woman he is going to see in the small town at the edge of the jungle. She is dancing to the same music, anticipating his arrival with the reward money. Suddenly she has a wave of fear overcome her and they intercut to Yves Montand in the truck, a tie rod breaks and the truck goes off the road and over a cliff and that’s it for him. The UHF station copy got to the point where the woman expresses shock, then after a horrible splice you immediately see the credits. Some schmuck at the UHF station got lazy and decided to skip the last portion of the film (!).