Sorcerer

Jun 24, 1977

2h 2m

★ 7.4

Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.

Overview

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Genres

Thriller

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Universal Pictures

Film Properties International

Sorcerer Trailers

Cast

Scanlon / "Dominguez"

Roy Scheider

Victor Manzon / "Serrano"

Bruno Cremer

Nilo

Francisco Rabal

Kassem / "Martinez"

Amidou

Corlette

Ramon Bieri

Lartigue

Peter Capell

"Marquez"

Karl John

"Carlos"

Friedrich von Ledebur

Bobby del Rios

Chico Martínez

Spider

Joe Spinell

Agrippa

Rosario Almontes

Billy White

Richard Holley

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