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''Hell Drivers'' (1957) is a British film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan and Sean Connery. The film was produced by the Rank Organisation and Aqua Film Productions. ==Plot== Tom Yately, just released from prison, is determined to start a new life and he gets a job as a driver at Hawletts, a haulage company that transports loads of ballast gravel from a nearby quarry. The truck-drivers are offered bonuses by the agent Cartley for delivering their loads at dangerously high speeds along narrow roads. Tom is accepted by the other drivers except Red, the foreman and head driver and also a violent bully. Tom soon becomes friends with Gino, an Italian driver who is in love with Cartley's secretary Lucy. Red offers a cash bonus to any driver who can make more runs than him and Tom is determined to try. The drivers start a brawl at a nearby dance hall one evening and when the police are called, Tom flees the scene, fearful that his criminal record will land him back in prison. Red calls Tom a coward and all of the other drivers except Gino turn on him, bullying Tom harshly. Lucy and Tom soon begin to be attracted to each other but Tom is hesitant out of loyalty to Gino. The other drivers continue to pick on Tom but, determined to escape his criminal past, he does not fight back. However Tom finds out that Cartley and Red have been scamming money by hiring fewer drivers than the budget allows for and then pocketing the difference, forcing the drivers to risk their lives by hauling extra loads at high speeds. Tom finally confronts Red and the two have a fist-fight which Tom wins. Gino finds out that Red plans to kill Tom by sabotaging his truck so he offers to exchange vehicles with Tom. Lucy breaks up with Gino who then finds out that she and Tom are secretly seeing each other. Despite his heartbreak, Gino continues to help Tom by driving the latter's truck which is sabotaged by Red. Gino is fatally injured in the subsequent crash. Distraught, Tom is tempted to leave and return to his life as a criminal but Lucy convinces him to stay. Tom discovers that Red has been keeping his place as top-driver through cheating by taking risky short-cuts through a quarry. Tom attempts to do the same but Red and Cartley in another truck attempt to force him off the road and over a cliff. Tom is injured and his truck dangles upon the edge of the quarry but the over-eager Red loses control and goes over the side. He and Cartley are both killed whilst Tom manages to escape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hell Drivers (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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