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Sorcerer (1977)

★ 7.5 · 648 ratings on TMDB

Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.

Sorcerer poster★ 7.5

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

DirectorWilliam Friedkin
CastAmidou, Bruno Cremer, Chico Martínez, Francisco Rabal, Friedrich von Ledebur, Joe Spinell
GenresAdventure, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Sorcerer keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E3stabilitynitroglycerin is hyper‑unstable: any vibration triggers immediate explosion (chemistry · local)
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Same people

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