THE LONG HAUL (1957) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Ken Hughes
Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen,
Gene Anderson, Peter Reynolds, Liam Redmond
The Great Victor plays an ex-G.I. who lands a job driving a truck out of Liverpool. He doesn't want to be there to begin with, and there are complications in the form of a mean, mousy wife played by Gene Anderson, a mobster played by Patrick Allen, and the mobster's girl, a platinum bombshell played by Diana Dors. As melodrama, this goes right over a cliff, but there's some good stuff, too, most notably a long sequence toward the end where Victor drives a truck over a treacherous mountain road, kind of like those four guys did in "The Wages of Fear" in 1953. And speaking of mountains, Diana Dors.
