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Human Desire is a black-and-white drama film, shot in film noir style, directed by Fritz Lang. The movie, based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola, was released in 1954. The story was made twice before in film: La Bête humaine ("The Human Beast" released in 1938) directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen (1920).

Hard-drinking Carl Buckley is a railroad worker fired from his job. His seductive wife pays a visit to a railroad official to try to get his job back. When Buckley suspects that his sexy, younger wife Vicki (Grahame) has done more than just talk with a railroad official, he first brutally beats her then he tracks down the railroad man and eventually stabs him to death in a jealous rage. Train conductor, and Korean War vet, Jeff Warren (Ford) knows that Vicki was a witness at the murder scene, but because of mutual attraction, refuses to testify against her. The two begin an affair with each other. Vicki then desides Warren should kill her violent husband and comes up with a plan.

Main cast

Glenn Ford
as Jeff Warren
Gloria Grahame
as Vicki Buckley
Broderick Crawford
as Carl Buckley
Edgar Buchanan
as Alec Simmons

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