Fear and Desire
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54% Critic Match

Fear and Desire

Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!

5.4 / 10 1953 1h 2mNR English
DramaWarThriller

Storyline

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

Cast & Crew

Frank Silvera

Frank Silvera

Mac

Lead
KH

Kenneth Harp

Lt. Corby / The General

Paul Mazursky

Paul Mazursky

Sidney

SC

Stephen Coit

Fletcher / The Captain

Virginia Leith

Virginia Leith

The Girl

DA

David Allen

Narrator (voice)

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stanley Kubrick's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Fear and Desire is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker