
Human Desire
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Initial release | USA |
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Directors | Fritz Lang |
Screenplay | Alfred Hayes |
Adapted from | La Bête humaine |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
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ID | 960002 |
About Human Desire
When he's fired from his job at the railroad, Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) asks his wife, Vicki (Gloria Grahame), to pay a visit to his boss, Owens (Grandon Rhodes), to try to earn his sympathies. It works, but Carl then assumes that Vicki and Owens are involved romantically, so he murders his boss in a jealous rage. Sick of her husband's violent ways, Vicki seduces Jeff (Glenn Ford), another worker at the railroad, hoping that she can convince him to murder her husband.
Empathy was George's great strength, he radiated it

... I told him once that the pan in companion came from the Latin word for bread, that the word carried in it the ingrained Human Desire to break bread with those we love and care about...
What is it like to be repeatedly asked where you are from?

... Finding common ground and feeling a sense of belonging is an innate Human Desire - this denies us that...