Human Desire (1954)

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

14

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Korean War veteran returns home and takes a job on the railroad. He gets involved with his coworker's wife, which leads to a dangerous affair.

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What happens

Human Desire is a 1954 American film noir drama starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford directed by Fritz Lang. It is loosely based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel La Bête humaine. The story had been filmed twice before: La Bête humaine (1938), directed by Jean Renoir, and Die Bestie im Menschen, starring Ilka Grüning (1920). The Academy Film Archive preserved Human Desire in 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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