Titles such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), RoboCop (1987), Hard Boiled (1992), The Killer (1989), and Ran (1985), became unavailable when their publishing licenses expired, or when Criterion published improved versions, such as Beauty and the Beast (1946), M (1931), Seven Samurai (1954), and The Wages of Fear (1954).
Like many of The Goon Show titles, it was a parody of a contemporary film, The Wages of Fear (1953).
Violent Road (aka Hell's Highway), directed by Howard W. Koch in 1958, and Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin in 1977, are American remakes.
Fear Factory | Fear Factor | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Cape Fear River | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film) | Well-Founded Fear | Fear (band) | Fear | The Hand of Fear | Sudden Fear | State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism | No Fear | Cradle of Fear | Cape Fear Thunder | With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | The Wages of Fear | The Fear Chamber | Great Fear | Fear of a Blank Planet | Fear and Misery of the Third Reich | Fear and Desire | Fear Agent | (Don't Fear) The Reaper | Cape Fear Community College | The Web of Fear | The Natural History of Fear | State of Fear | Fear Her | Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 4) | Fear and Trembling |
Charles Vanel, a veteran French actor who had played a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (1953), and a restaurateur opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955), was cast as Sébastien's eccentric but friendly fisherman uncle Louis Maréchal.