Criterion Re-Issues Wages of Fear.

Just when you thought a Criterion release was the definitive one, they are re-issuing Wages of Fear with a brand new transfer. Spine #36 will go out of print May 16th to make way for the new one some time later in 2005. No word as to whether there will be new extras on the re-issue. The film is a solidly plotted nail-biter where several employees have to quickly ship a truckload of nitroglycerine to an oil-well fire so the engineers can put out the blaze by blowing it up. Trouble is, there is no time to make the truck safe for shipping the dangerous cargo (across bumpy roads, naturally).

Now it would be a classy move on Criterion's part to be able to trade up with a cost savings by returning previously owned Spine #36 discs.