Fresh
Though the action pivots on blackmail and murder, the heart of the movie is a regular guy's struggle with the inner violence of sexual frenzy and the outer violence of war.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Human Desire
A rarity on the screen … a RAW slice of life!
1954 · 1h 31m · Approved
Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Overview
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Fritz Lang, director, goes overboard in his effort to create mood. Long focusing on locomotive speeding and twisting on the rails is neither entertaining nor essential to the plot.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
There isn't a single character in it for whom it builds up the slightest sympathy -- and there isn't a great deal else in it for which you're likely to have the least regard.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Lang's version of Zola's La Bete Humaine is, like all his best '50s work, as cold, hard and steely grey as the railway tracks which here mark out the action.
Steve Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh
A gripping melodrama.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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