Hell Drivers (film)

Hell Drivers 1957 is a British film drama directed by Cy Endfield and starring Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom and Peggy Cummins. The film was produced by the Rank Organisation and Aqua Film Productions.

One evening, the drivers go to a dance at a nearby hall and start a fight. When the police are called, Tom flees the scene, fearful that his criminal record will return him to prison. Red calls Tom a coward and all of the other drivers except Gino turn on Tom, bullying him incessantly.Lucy and Tom soon begin to be attracted to each other but Tom is hesitant out of loyalty to Gino. The other drivers continue to pick on him but, determined to escape his criminal past, he does not fight back. However, Tom finds out that Cartley and Red have been scamming money by hiring fewer drivers than the budget allows for and then pocketing the difference, forcing the drivers to risk their lives by hauling extra loads at high speeds. Tom confronts Red and the two engage in a fistfight which Tom wins. Gino finds out that Red plans to kill Tom by sabotaging his truck so he offers to exchange vehicles with Tom. Lucy breaks up with Gino who then finds out that she and Tom are secretly seeing each other. Despite his heartbreak, Gino continues to help Tom by driving the latters truck which is sabotaged by Red. Gino is fatally injured in the subsequent crash. Distraught, Tom is tempted to leave and return to his life as a criminal but Lucy convinces him to stay. ........

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