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6.8A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.
Released: 1954-08-0591 minDir: Fritz LangCrime, Drama, Romance
Cast
- Glenn Ford as Jeff Warren
- Gloria Grahame as Vicki Buckley
- Broderick Crawford as Carl Buckley
- Edgar Buchanan as Alec Simmons
- Kathleen Case as Ellen Simmons
- Peggy Maley as Jean
Themes
- assassination
- film noir
- dysfunctional marriage
- deceit
- korean war veteran
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
6,926 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
- Year
- 1954
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- Rated
- Approved
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- film noir
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- La Bête humaine
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Screenwriter
- Alfred Hayes
- Cast member
- John Maxwell
- Composer
- Daniele Amfitheatrof
- Producer
- Lewis J. Rachmil
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Burnett Guffey
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 758452
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1954-11-03
- title
- Human Desire
- production designer
- William Kiernan
- after a work by
- Émile Zola
- color
- black-and-white
- film editor
- Aaron Stell
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 60%
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