Roy Scheider plays a getaway driver who leads an international team of ne'er-do-wells transporting two trucks of nitroglycerin across the dangerous Latin American jungle. After two smash-hit successes, director William Friedkin’s follow-up to THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) and THE EXORCIST (1973) was a critical and commerical dud on release, but has since been embraced as a thrilling feat of on-location filmmaking, featuring some of the most astounding set pieces in cinema history.