Human Desire (1954)
With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Anita Stewart, John Pickard, Peggy Maley, Dan Seymour
Directed by Fritz Lang
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). The Academy Film Archive preserved Human Desire in 1997.
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