Hell Drivers

Hell Drivers - 1957 | 108 mins | Thriller, Drama | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Cy Endfield.
Producer: Benjamin Fisz.
Script: Cy Endfield and John Kruse.
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth.
Editing: John D. Guthridge.
Art Direction: Ernest Archer.
Costume Design: Yvonne Caffin.
Makeup Department: W.T. Partleton and Stella Rivers.
Sound Department: Jim Groom and Robert T. MacPhee.
Music: Hubert Clifford.

The Cast

Stanley Baker - Tom Yately
Herbert Lom - Gino
Patrick McGoohan - Red
Peggy Cummins - Lucy
William Hartnell - Cartley
Sid James - Dusty
Wilfrid Lawson - Ed
Jill Ireland - Jill
Alfie Bass - Tinker
Gordon Jackson - Scottie
David McCallum - Jimmy
Sean Connery - Tom

Plot Synopsis

Britain's own screen toughie Stanley Baker is excellent in this solid, gritty thriller. Baker and Endfield reunited a few years later to make Zulu.

Baker plays Tom Yately, an ex-jailbird signing up with a crooked haulage firm where unforgiving Cartley (William Hartnell) is the corrupt manager. The drivers have to make high-speed runs to collect their bonuses, sweating as the speedometer hits 40mph, all in pursuit of number one driver Red (Patrick McGoohan). After Tom’s Italian friend Gino (Herbert Lom) is killed by Red and Cartley, Tom sets out to put an end to the scam – killing the two when their truck goes over the edge of a quarry during the pursuit.