Sorcerer is a 1977 American adventure thriller movie directed by William Friedkin and based on the Georges Arnaud's 1950 novel "Le Salaire de la peur" and remake of the 1953 movie "The Wages of Fear". It stars Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. It was a commercial failure and being released around the same time as ".