Human Desire
Human Desire

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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. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs Vicki to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman, for whom Vi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Human Desire:

Glenn Ford
Gloria Grahame
Broderick Crawford
Edgar Buchanan
Kathleen Case
Peggy Maley

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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. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs Vicki to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman, for whom Vicki's mother used to keep house and whose influence can get him reinstated. When Buckley suspects she has used sexual favors to persuade Owens, he beats Vicki and develops a plan to meet Owens on the train and stabs him to death in a jealous rage in his compartment. Jeff, who is deadheading after a trip, is on the train and meets Vicki without knowing who she is, when Buckley needs her to get him out of the way so he can get back to their compartment without being seen as he is covered in blood. Jeff is a potential witness to the homicide and becomes an accessory after the fact due to his attraction for Vicki. Jeff and Vicki begin an affair, while Vicki plots to get away from her abusive husband and recover the evidence that links her to the murder.

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The New York Review of Books - 6/10 by Geoffrey O'BrienThe 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 - 6/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonA superb, highly polished example of Lang's craft.
Classic Film and Television - 6/10 by Michael E. GrostUnpleasant crime melodrama, but with outstanding photography of trains and working class America.
User Review - 10/10 by Alex FAn exellent Film Noir Drama directed by the Master Fritz Lang with Gloria Grahama as one of the devious Femme Fatales of Alltime great Directons, great Dialogoes and the Parts are brilliant acted it also shows the Difference between killing a Man in the War and killing a Man as a Civilist in the War you shoot in the Dark on some Moving Thing in a Uniform the Enemy and you can split your Civilist Life and your Soldier Life in two Parts but when you kill a Man from next Near as a Civilist this is a Part of your One Life and most Men can't arrange that with their Conscience
User Review - 10/10 by Alexandre RFritz Lang, the most ingenious directors of film noir, realizes this little work of outstanding genre superiority with a sinister and absorbing panache. Cinematographer Burnett Guffey is unyielding in depicting the spiritual isolation of the characters. Lang punctuates the dramatic action with Guffey's threatening shots of the many railroad tracks interlacing and breaking away. He needs not brandish any certainty of intention for them to act as metaphor for the characters' paths tying themselves in knots. Lang had the old-fashioned cinematic touch that could remain hidden as a more effective means of showcasing a distinctive style. Insightful and intense, Human Desire is a distressing parable on the subject of the shadows of human rationale and the distortion of the heart, and of desperate characters who lead disappointed lives. Hard-drinking Carl Buckley is a freshly fired railroad worker. His alluring wife visits a railroad executive in an attempt to get his job back. When Buckley imagines that she has done more than just talk with the official, which if I were visited by Gloria Grahame would have been a totally righteous suspicion, he initially cruelly thrashes her then hunts down the railroad man and ultimately kills him in a jealous rage. Train conductor and Korean War vet Glenn Ford then gets himself mixed up in it all. And from there, we have yet another of Fritz's all too real dilemmas, and yet another one of those between Ford and Grahame, one that about matches the mastery and vast entertainment of their companion piece together, The Big Heat. In the face of the cruelty and ruthlessness in getting what they want, regardless of how far they unravel each other's darkest colors, in spite of the scorpion-like sidestepping around their flirtatious relationship, the two lead characters remain sympathetic in their own respective ways, though one is in some sense a champion and the other is an adversary. Accordingly, Human Desire is a boldly familiarizing study of the sense of right and wrong, achieving its shadowy effect by aiming for your heart and loins rather than only your cerebrum.
User Review - 10/10 by Carlos MAstonishing. Human Desire talks about me, you, my father, my family and everybody. Stands the rules in that all of us are living. All the great movies of the history of cinema could be called HUMAN DESIRE. Intolerance could be called Human Desire, October could be called Human Desire, A bout de Souffle, 8 1/2, 2001 Space Odyssey, even Wall-e, Human Desire is a very good title for Wall-e; all of the really great movies could be called Human Desire. Fritz Lang's Human Desire is an extraordinary masterpiece in the use of black and white, composition, space, panoramic use, lighting and what's more important, have a real live and a real and deep human understanding of what happens to us every day. If somebody doesn't love Human Desire, he or she cannot love living in our society with our fears, our regrets, our friends, our relationships, and our DESIRES, because in the end, all we are is a bunch of DESIRES. I recommend to everyone, it's a marvelous movie and helped a lot to me to understand what happens all around me and what happens to myself. The cast are simply the best, Gloria Grahamme is superb, Broderick Crawford and Glenn Ford are just the guys to act this men and I could talk about the rhythim of the music and how it helps to make the public feel the impacient of the Human Desires, like a train, never stopping our dreams and targets, and how is masterfully directed each sequence by Fritz Lang, knowing as nobody what's the real important in each actor movement, in each word. HUMAN DESIRE, I cannot say more.
User Review - 10/10 by Craig DFilm Noir classic, not as well known as most of the genre but the intensity of the performance is great
User Review - 10/10 by Private UFantastic middle-class domestic noir from Fritz Lang. One of Lang's best.
User Review - 8/10 by Adam DIn "Human Desire," Jeff Warren(Glenn Ford) is just back from the wars and at his job as a train engineer. At work, he encounters Carl Buckley(Broderick Crawford), a friend, who soon enough loses his job in a fight with management. So, Carl travels to the city with his wife Vicki(Gloria Grahame) to get his job back. Which she does. But when it takes much, much longer than he originally thought, this only goes to fuel his jealousy. Directed by Fritz Lang with no small amount of relish, "Human Desire" is not just a very good crime movie of the era it was made in, but also one very much ahead of its time. First, it is still the rare movie to point out when an older man is paired with a much younger woman which is usually still taken for granted. Second and more importantly is how the movie is also very honest about domestic violence, even if the vocabulary did not yet exist when this was made.
User Review - 8/10 by Victor MSuffers in comparison to THE BIG HEAT but it's still stunning visually.

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