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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).
HUMAN DESIRE is a riveting cinematic tale of complex relationships, concealed secrets, and remorse, guiding us through love, betrayal, and the inevitable clash of destinies.
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- Glenn Ford
- Fritz Lang
- Crime, Drama
Fritz Lang studies the relationship of character to fate in 1954's Human Desire, a remake of Jean Renoir's French classic La bête humain, from a novel by Émile Zola. The original film is a prime exponent of Poetic Realism, a French school of films about working-class people betrayed by their own passions.
- Fritz Lang, Milton Feldman
- Glenn Ford
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. Vicki Buckley is the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence.
Human Desire (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In Fritz Lang's grim, noirish, melodramatic tale of fate, infidelity, deceit, blackmail and obsessive passion - it was based on Emile Zola's 1890 novel La Bete Humaine; this Columbia Pictures remake was already filmed twice before: the silent film Die Bestie im Menschen (1920, Germ.) and Jean Renoir's French film La Bête Humaine (1938, Fr ...
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.
