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Human Desire is a american film of genre Drama directed by Fritz Lang released in USA on 5 august 1954 with Glenn Ford
Human Desire (1954)
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Add to a movie listHuman Desire is a 1954 black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford. It is loosely based on the novel La Bête humaine, by Émile Zola. The story had been filmed twice before: La Bête humaine (1938) directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen starring Ilka Grüning (1920).
Synopsis
Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) gets fired from his job. He persuades his seductive wife to pay a visit to an important railroad customer in order to try to get his job back. When Buckley suspects that his sexy, younger wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) has done more than just talk with the rich old magnate John Owens (Grandon Rhodes), he smacks her around. He then jealously stalks his rival, finally stabbing him to death in a train compartment. Locomotive engineer and Korean War vet, Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) observed Vicki in the vicinity of the murder, but shields her at the inquest, as she sets his pulse racing. The two begin an affair which is hard to keep quiet in such a small town. Vicki then starts scheming for Warren to kill her increasingly drunk and violent husband.Actors
Glenn Ford
(Jeff Warren)
Gloria Grahame
(Vicki Buckley)
Broderick Crawford
(Carl Buckley)
Edgar Buchanan
(Alec Simmons)
Kathleen Case
(Ellen Simmons)
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