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panzer the great & terrible	Jun 8 2009, 11:29 PM
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,340 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	I've been looking for a movie to support my theory that Fritz Lang never really lost it and was tough enough to deal with the Hollywood guys in the Fifties, and lucky for me, with only one to go (Secret behind the Door -- not promising), Human Desire turns out to be a winner. Yay! Glenn Ford, see, is a train driver just back from Korea, and the little girl in his house has grown up and still loves him, but he prefers Gloria Grahame, who has no end of issues, some of them murderous, involving her husband Brod Crawford (!). This is from a Zola novel, sort of, and not just any Zola novel but the one Renoir used for La Bete Humaine, and you know, I think I like this better than the Renoir, even though I love that movie. Lang's good at details, gets all the train stuff right, and I'm a train kinda guy. I'll climb out on a limb here and go ahead, start sawing, Mr. Hale: I give this movie 5 stars -- it's everything a noir ought to be. A Columbia picture. Thank God for Harry Cohn. I saw it on TCM, alas not on the DVD ripper TV. but I'll get my copy someday somehow..
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