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Human Desire
1954 1h 31m Not Rated
Drama
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Romance
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7.1
58%
73%
67%
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A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
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Directed By
Fritz Lang
Written By
Alfred Hayes
Studio
Columbia Pictures
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Cast of Human Desire
Glenn Ford
Jeff Warren
Gloria Grahame
Vicki Buckley
Broderick Crawford
Carl Buckley
Edgar Buchanan
Alec Simmons
Kathleen Case
Ellen Simmons
Peggy Maley
Jean
Diane DeLaire
Vera Simmons
Grandon Rhodes
John Owens
Dan Seymour
Bartender
John Pickard
Matt Henley
Paul Brinegar
Brakeman
Dan Riss
Prosecutor Gruber
John Zaremba
Russell
Carl Lee
John Thurston
Olan Soule
Lewis
Human Desire Reviews
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Though not one of [Fritz] Lang's best works, ultimately sticking a little too close to the standard outline of thrillers of the period, this is nevertheless a satisfying experience for genre fans.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Hard-edged and chilling.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a fairly standard film-noir thriller that's elevated by its surprising narrative and proliferation of compelling performances...
New Yorker
Richard Brody
Though the action pivots on blackmail and murder, the heart of the movie is a regular guy's struggle with the inner violence of sexual frenzy and the outer violence of war.
Variety
Variety Staff
Fritz Lang, director, goes overboard in his effort to create mood. Long focusing on locomotive speeding and twisting on the rails is neither entertaining nor essential to the plot.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
There isn't a single character in it for whom it builds up the slightest sympathy -- and there isn't a great deal else in it for which you're likely to have the least regard.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A gripping melodrama.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
Grahame is electrifying
The New York Review of Books
Geoffrey O'Brien
The director manages to extract precisely the same numbed unease from a murder, an embrace, or a moment of dead time in which someone looks out the window.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A superb, highly polished example of Lang's craft.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Unpleasant crime melodrama, but with outstanding photography of trains and working class America.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The inconsistencies in Vicki seem less to do with being rooted in the noir tradition of keeping the leading lady in the shadows (is she good girl or femme fatale?) and more to do with sloppy writing.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
Fritz Lang's underrated noir elegantly toys with noir tropes and subverts our expectations.
TV Guide
This sordid little tale is not nearly as sensuous or sexual as the French version, nor is it very suspenseful.
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