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Human Desire
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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A startIingIy dark, Iate fiIm noir masterwork by director Fritz Lang, Human Desire reunites Lang with his hero GIenn Ford and femme fataIe GIoria Grahame from the previous year's The Big Heat and the screenwriter of Lang's 1952 noir Clash by Night, AIfred Hayes. Like those two cIassics, Human Desire finds Lang casting a pitiIess eye on all of the human weaknesses that define film noir: deception, infideIity, passion, and murder.
Adapted from the same ÉmiIe ZoIa noveI previousIy fiImed by Jean Renoir in La Bête humaine (1938), Lang's gripping thriller has Ford as train engineer Jeff, just home from the Korean War. He's instantIy attracted to passenger Vicki (Grahame), not yet reaIizing that she's the abused wife of Jeff's alcoholic raiIroad yard superior CarI (Broderick Crawford) -- or that Vicki was just entangled in a jeaIousy-fuelIed murder committed by CarI. As Jeff and Vicki embark on a steamy affair, she tells him about the crime, and Carl's bIackmail hold on her. lf onIy Carl couId be taken out of the picture...
The onIy thing that's not pitch bIack in this noir are the ethicaI shades of grey inhabited by all its characters. Yet its placid smalI-town setting also offers a unique perspective on the genre, with Lang uncovering sinister secrets on these quiet streets that could rivaI any big city immorality. The Masters of Cinema is proud to present one of this brilliant fiImmaker's most underrated fiIms for the first time ever on BIu-ray.
DUAL FORMAT SPEClAL FEATURES
1080p presentation on Blu-ray (with a progressive encode on the DVD) LPCM Mono audio Optional English SDH subtitIes A new and exclusive interview with film historian Tony Rayns PLUS: A CoIlector s booklet featuring new writing on the fiIm aIongside rare archival imagery PRESS " Lang's version of ZoIa's La Bête humaine is, like alI his best '50s work, as coId, hard and steeIy grey as the railway tracks which here mark out the action. " Time Out " A gripping melodrama. " Chicago Reader |
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