Movie
Human Desire
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1954-08-05
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Glenn Ford as Jeff Warren
- Gloria Grahame as Vicki Buckley
- Broderick Crawford as Carl Buckley
- Edgar Buchanan as Alec Simmons
- Kathleen Case as Ellen Simmons
- Peggy Maley as Jean
- Diane DeLaire as Vera Simmons
- Grandon Rhodes as John Owens
- Dan Seymour as Bartender
- John Pickard as Matt Henley
- Paul Brinegar as Brakeman
- Dan Riss as Prosecutor Gruber
Crew
- Fritz Lang - Director
- Alfred Hayes - Writer
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