Hell Drivers

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Hell Drivers

1957,

1h 31m,

Drama

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83%

6 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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6 Reviews

85%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

Tom Yately is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy and Gino, who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red, the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

Aug 22, 2025

Within the men of “Hell Drivers” you can see the archetypes of British masculinity that would come to dominate cinema for the next couple of decades.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Jun 9, 2023

6/10

It reaches its highest degree of load in the truck sequences where Stanley Baker demonstrates his driving skills, but sometimes it crosses uneven roads. [Full review in Spanish]

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Aug 26, 2010

B

The thriller is appealing for its no-nonsense approach.

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Armond White

New York Press

Aug 5, 2009

The working-class personal/political tension leads to a splendidly drawn immigrant characterization by Herbert Lom and the human drama of Baker dangling from a precipice. Both remain memorable.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Aug 4, 2005

3/5

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Poe L

Sep 14, 2018

Gritty and realistic for its time, good storyline and good acting. Still enjoyable about 65 years on!

Aug 2, 2018

Quite a wild ride! ??

Harry P

Apr 28, 2018

A frist class production with Sean Connery to boot. Great cast, direction, filming, and the story is a great time capsule of this type of work. Some of the plot was had gaps, but it still came together well.

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Poe L

May 24, 2017

Dated and rather pedestrian drama in which a stolid Stanley Baker joins a road haulage business and finds himself at immediate odds with Red, a fag-clenching Irishman (played by a wildly hammy Patrick McGoohan). Hilarious undercranked sequences of lorries racing around Buckinghamshire are leavened by good supporting performances from George Murcell, Sean Connery, Sid James, William Hartnell, and an excellent one by Herbert Lom as Baker's roommate and love rival.

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Charles De Latour

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Stanley Baker

Tom Yately

Herbert Lom

Gino Rossi

Peggy Cummins

Lucy

Patrick McGoohan

C. "Red" Redman

Jill Ireland

Jill

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Synopsis

Tom Yately is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy and Gino, who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red, the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

Director: Charles De Latour
Producer: Benjamin Fisz, Earl St. John
Screenwriter: Charles De Latour, John Kruse
Production Co: The Rank Organization [gb]
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 25, 2016
Runtime: 1h 31m

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