Stanley Baker is an ex-con looking for work. He ends up getting a job at a company that hauls gravel for a road construction project. The catch is that the drivers are expected to drive really fast in order to meet their daily quota. A young Patrick McGoohan is the leader of the truck drivers. He's a nasty bully and we know this because he always has a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. Peggy Cummins is the office secretary who knows where all the dirty secrets are buried at the trucking company, Sean Connery and Gordon Jackson are also in the cast as truck drivers in smaller roles.
As some critics pointed out at the time this was an unusual film since it was filled with lots of macho posturing and tough action. Usually British films had a more shall we say refined approach to excitement as in the boring film
The Scarlet Pimpernel. For a change
Hell Drivers was a rare film at this time that focused on the lives of the British working class.
The film was directed by a blacklisted American writer/director Cy Enfield. Enfield relocated to England and filmed some tough crime and action films. Enfield's big picture was
Zulu which he produced with Stanley Baker.
Peggy Cummins had an aborted career in Hollywood after being recast in
Forever Amber is in this film to sex it up. Cummins most memorable film was the classic
Gun Crazy. Perennial British character actor Herbert Lom shows up playing Baker's Italian friend. Ace cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth shot the exciting driving scenes. Overall an entertaining action film. This film is dripping with testosterone and mano a mano fighting. The action is rough and exciting.
The screenplay is by Cy Enfield and John Kruse, the running time is 108 minutes.
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