Original title (FR): Le salaire de la peur

Four down-on-their-luck individuals are hired to drive trucks laden with nitroglycerine through the mountains as part of an operation to extinguish an oil well fire.

Original novel (1950):

• Le salaire de la peur, by Georges Arnaud

Original film (1953):

• The Wages of Fear (FR: Le Salaire de la peur), dir Henri-Georges Clouzot
• trailer

American remake (1977):

• Sorcerer, dir William Friedkin
• trailer
• Famously released with great anticipation of being a big hit movie, but had the misfortune of sharing the same release date as Star Wars.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/984324-le-salaire-de-la-peur--------