S4E32.5 The Wages of Fear

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film:film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This is a preview of a bonus episode! find the rest of it along with out half-decade backlog of bonus episodes, here!KJB Reenters the Cerebral French zone, so you know it's a November bonus pick. This week, we check out a 1953 film about european cast-offs risking their lives in a remote south american oil and mining community. ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE - With the ceasefire in full effect, the media has returned to ignoring the daily atrocities in Gaza. My friend Ahmed still needs to feed his family and afford medicine. Anything you can kick in would be hugely appreciated.https://chuffed.org/project/150817-please-help-ahmed-and-his-family-get-food-drink-and-medicine And these are some more general links you can support collective efforts with! -The Palestinian Communist Youth Union is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/----- Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the everything app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond. I am November Kelly. I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:26.1	Hello, cowabunga. Hi, hello. It's November and I once again seized the opportunity with both hands to make my friends watch and talk about a black
0:40.6	and white French existentialist film.
0:44.6	That's right.
0:45.6	I hope you enjoy suffering.
0:48.6	I hope you enjoy philosophy.
0:52.1	I don't know why either of you to enjoy philosophy, but you know, just in case, just in case.
0:57.7	No, no, me neither.
0:58.8	I hate it on.
0:59.4	I love tubes, though.
1:00.7	I love, love, love tubes.
1:02.6	I've never thought in my life.
1:04.1	She just philosophizes all those tubes.
1:06.9	Um, no, we watched the Wages of Fear, which is a 1953 movie that is, I think, just masterful exercise in cinematic tension.
1:21.2	You might also know it from, there was a loose remake of it in the 70s called Sorcerer, which I will also probably be doing because
1:31.3	I think the thing is I was inspired by the Fast and the Furious, of course, the truckers,
1:38.3	the truckers who are, of course, the natural enemy of the carman, the truckman.
1:44.6	Mm-hmm.
1:49.9	And this made me think, I want a movie that has some truck in it.
1:54.7	And I'd even like to suggest, you know, now that we've, we've, I would say we've ticked off all the religions, you know, Christianity.
1:57.0	Yes.
1:57.1	Different kind of Christianity.
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