--- title: 'Human Desire (1954)' type: 'film' director: 'Fritz Lang' released: '1954-01-01' runtime_minutes: 91 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/human-desire-1954' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047101/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Human Desire (1954) 1954 · 91 min · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang) - **Screenplay:** [Alfred Hayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-hayes) - **Original Music Composer:** [Daniele Amfitheatrof](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniele-amfitheatrof) - **Producer:** [Lewis J. Rachmil](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-j-rachmil) - **Director of Photography:** [Burnett Guffey](https://cinepixo.com/people/burnett-guffey) - **Editor:** [Aaron Stell](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-stell) ## Cast - [John Pickard](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-pickard) - [Peggy Maley](https://cinepixo.com/people/peggy-maley) - [Grandon Rhodes](https://cinepixo.com/people/grandon-rhodes) - [Paul Brinegar](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-brinegar) - [John Zaremba](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-zaremba) - [Kathleen Case](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-case) - [Gloria Grahame](https://cinepixo.com/people/gloria-grahame) - [Dan Seymour](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-seymour) - [John Maxwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-maxwell) - [Broderick Crawford](https://cinepixo.com/people/broderick-crawford) - [Glenn Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/glenn-ford) - [Edgar Buchanan](https://cinepixo.com/people/edgar-buchanan) - [Anita Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-stewart) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/human-desire-1954 Film facts: Wikidata (Q62976); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.