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''Human Desire'' is a 1954 FilmNoir drama directed by Creator/FritzLang, starring Creator/GlennFord, Creator/GloriaGrahame and Creator/BroderickCrawford. It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine'', which had already been adapted by Creator/JeanRenoir in 1938 (''Film/LaBeteHumaine'').
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''Human Desire'' is a 1954 FilmNoir drama directed by Creator/FritzLang, starring Creator/GlennFord, Creator/GloriaGrahame and Creator/BroderickCrawford. It is based on Émile Zola's Creator/EmileZola's novel, ''La Bête humaine'', which had already been adapted by Creator/JeanRenoir in 1938 (''Film/LaBeteHumaine'').
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''Human Desire'' is a 1954 film directed by Creator/FritzLang, starring Creator/GlennFord, Creator/GloriaGrahame and Creator/BroderickCrawford. It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine'', which had already been adapted by Creator/JeanRenoir in 1938 (''Film/LaBeteHumaine'').
Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen, has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, an old acquaintance of hers and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen, has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, an old acquaintance of hers and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
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''Human Desire'' is a 1954film FilmNoir drama directed by Creator/FritzLang, starring Creator/GlennFord, Creator/GloriaGrahame and Creator/BroderickCrawford. It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine'', which had already been adapted by Creator/JeanRenoir in 1938 (''Film/LaBeteHumaine'').
Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons (Edgar Buchanan) often puts himup. up, while Alec's daughter, Ellen, daughter Ellen (Kathleen Case) has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, Owens (Grandon Rhodes), an old acquaintance of hers and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Vicki is married to Buckley, but she sleeps with Owens, then she has a relationship with Jeff.
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Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen, has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, an old acquaintance of her hers and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
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* WrenchWhack: In the end, Jeff considers killing Buckley with a wrench.
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* WrenchWhack: In the end, Jeff considers killing Buckley with a monkey wrench.
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** Jeff considers killing Buckley. {{Subverted|Trope}} because [[spoiler:he does not dare to do it]].
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** Jeff considers killing Buckley.Buckley, the husband of his mistress. {{Subverted|Trope}} because [[spoiler:he does not dare to do it]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Buckley kills Owens, because he had sex with his wife Vicki.
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** Jeff considers killing Buckley. {{Subverted|Trope}} because [[spoiler:he does not dare to do it]].
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* WrenchWhack: In the end, Jeff considers killing Buckley with a wrench.
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* LysistrataGambit: After Buckley killed Owens, Vicki withholds sex from him because he refuses to destroy the compromising letter.
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Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen Ellen, has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, an old acquaintance of her and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
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* SexualExtortion: It is implied that Owens agreed to help Buckley to get his job back on the condition that Vicki, his former lover, had a sexual intercourse with him.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Vicki is married to Buckley, but she has a relationship with Jeff.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Vicki is married to Buckley, but she sleeps with Owens, then she has a relationship with Jeff.
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Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and he resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford), another employee of the train company, is fired. To get his job back, he convinces persuades his wife Vicki (Grahame) to meet Owens, an old acquaintance of her and a big customer of the company, who could pressure Buckley's boss into hiring him back.
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* FemmeFatale: Vicki. At first, she lies to Jeff about her involvement in Owens's murder. Then, she tries to convince him to murder Buckley.
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* TheAlcoholic: Buckley drinks more and more over the course of the film. He even gets fired a second time because of that.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Vicki and Buckley after Vicki met Owens. Buckley is violent with her and Vicki understandably does not want to have sex with him any more.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Vicki and Buckley after Vicki met Owens. Buckley is violent with her and Vicki understandably does not want to have sex with him any more.
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* BittersweetEnding: Jeff has ended a toxic relationship with Vicki and he will start a positive relationship with Ellen, but [[spoiler:Vicki is killed by Buckley]].
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* DescentIntoAddiction: Over the course of the film, Buckley becomes an alcoholic. He also gets more and more violent with his wife. In the end, [[spoiler:he kills her]].
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* {{Irony}}: Situational irony: Buckley wants Vicki to meet Owens to get his job back. Just after the meeting, he is hired again, but the ultimate consequences of this meeting (his growing jealousy, his bad relationship with Vicki, then his addiction to alcohol) will lead to his second dismissal.
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* ChekhovsGun: Buckley's knife. On the way out, he carelessly uses it to cut a piece of wood. On the way back, he murders Owens with it.
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* DomesticAbuse: Buckley beats his wife Vicki. He also blackmails her to force her to stay with him: he threatens to disclose a compromising letter.
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* {{Frameup}}: Buckley threatens to frame Vicki up for the murder of Owens. Therefore, he keeps a compromising letter that she wrote.
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** Vicki is married with Buckley. Buckley asks her to meet her former lover, Owens. Owens and Vicki have sex when they meet.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Buckley kills Owens, because he had sex with his wife Vicki.
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* MalMariee: Vicki is much younger than her husband. She is unhappy. He is jealous. He blackmails her to force her to stay with him.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Buckley (Creator/BroderickCrawford) and Vicki (Creator/GloriaGrahame). Everybody notices that Vicki is much younger than him.
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* DomesticAbuse: Buckley beats his wife Vicki. He also blackmails her to force her to stay with him: he threatens to disclose a compromising letter.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Buckley. He kills Owens because he suspects that his wife had sex with him. In the end, he even kills [[poiler:Vicki, because she is leaving him]].
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Buckley. He kills Owens because he suspects that his wife had sex with him. In the end, he even kills [[poiler:Vicki, [[spoiler:Vicki, because she is leaving him]].
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* BettyAndVeronica: Two girls try to charm Jeff Warren (Archie): GirlNextDoor Ellen (Betty) and FemmeFatale Vicki (Veronica), a married woman involved in a murder case, who often lies to him.
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* FemmeFatale: Vicki. At first, she lies to Jeff about her involvement in Owens's murder. Then, she tries to convince him to murder Buckley.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: Jeff's reaction when he meets Ellen again after his return from UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.
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* {{Bookends}}: In the first scene and in the last scene, Jeff and Alec are driving a train together.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Buckley. He kills Owens because he suspects that his wife had sex with him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Buckley. He kills Owens because he suspects that his wife had sex with him.
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* SettingUpdateSettingUpdate: Zola's novel was set in France in the 19th century. The film is set in the US in the 1950's.
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''Human Desire'' is a 1954 film directed by Creator/FritzLang, starring Creator/GlennFord, Creator/GloriaGrahame and Creator/BroderickCrawford. It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine'', which had already been adapted by Creator/JeanRenoir in 1938 (''Film/LaBeteHumaine'').
Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in the UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford) is fired.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine''.
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Jeff Warren (Ford) fought in the UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. He is back home and resumes his work as a train engineer. His friend and colleague Alec Simmons often puts him up. Alec's daughter, Ellen has a crush on Jeff. Meanwhile, Buckley (Crawford) is fired.
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!!''Human Desire'' provides examples of:
* TheFilmOfTheBook: It is based on Émile Zola's novel, ''La Bête humaine''.
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