Fear and Desire
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.
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Stanley Kubrick's first feature directorial debut that's set in a ficticious war in an unidentified country. The 1953 American anti-war film was directed, produced and edited by Stanley Kubrick and was written by Howard Sackler. It had a production team of fifteen people. Kubrick attempted to destroy all copies, but was unsuccessful. You can read more about the movie by going to its Wikipedia page. The video on this page is a mirror from here.
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- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Starring
- Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen
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