Blowing Wild
In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.
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"I have been an avid Turner Classic Movies viewer and cannot recall them ever playing this obscure Gary Cooper film. It's a shame, as it's pretty good. The film is a remake of the Cagney film "Torrid Zone" and it's also a bit similar (at least in the early part of the movie) to "Wages of Fear"...a film that also came out in 1953. Jeff and Dutch (Gary Cooper and Ward Bond) are stuck in Mexico*...broke and with no prospects after bandits dynamite their oil rig. They get a crazy job transporting nitroglycerin but it turns out that the guy hiring them is a crook...."
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Mexican officials initially banned this film and demanded that cuts be made, in order to portray Mexicans less unfavorably. Warner Bros. agreed to make the cuts, after months of negotiations during which the Mexican government threatened to ban all Warner Bros. productions in Mexico. After months of negotiation, during which the Mexican government threatened to ban all Warner Bros. productions in Mexico and to appeal to the U. S. State Department to prevent worldwide distribution of the film, Warner Bros. agreed to make the cuts. Besides making cuts in the film, Warner Bros. May have changed the location of the story as a result of the dispute and altered the title card after the film's 1953 release in the U.S.
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In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.