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Fear and Desire
1953 62m Not Rated
Drama
,
Thriller
,
War
5.3
70%
35%
54%
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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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Directed By
Stanley Kubrick
Written By
Howard Sackler
Studio
Stanley Kubrick Productions
Cast of Fear and Desire
Frank Silvera
Mac
Kenneth Harp
Lt. Corby / The General
Paul Mazursky
Sidney
Stephen Coit
Fletcher / The Captain
Virginia Leith
The Girl
David Allen
Narrator (voice)
Fear and Desire Reviews
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...an exceedingly thin premise that's employed to sometimes striking yet often underwhelming effect by Kubrick...
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
[While it] may not be an essential piece of the Kubrick canon, it is certainly an essential piece of film history.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
If Fear and Desire is uneven and sometimes reveals an experimental rather than a polished exterior, its over-all effect is entirely worthy of the sincere effort put into it.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
A dismal expression of a lousy script... every bit the work of a young kid with lots of ideas and no clue what to do with them.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Its sole distinction is that it's a Kubrick film.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Stanley Kubrick's long-unseen first feature film, recommended solely as a curio.
The Atlantic
Steve Erickson
... Fear and Desire shows that Kubrick's polished vision didn't emerge from a void. He had to start out with a rough draft first.
Village Voice
Tim Grierson
Treat it like a wobbly, precocious demo from a 24-year-old with mighty aspirations, filled with hints of what he would become, and you'll be properly enthralled.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
For all its heavy-handed gloom and stylistic unevenness, Fear and Desire has a certain fierceness that's hard to shake.
IONCINEMA.com
Jordan M. Smith
An uncharacteristically bland exposé of war behind enemy lines with a mix of arty pretensions that were undercut by technical shortcomings and generally hammy performances.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Kubrick does show some brash invention and a yearning to experiment with angles.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Although some visuals are striking chiaroscuro, the film still comes across as tyro self-conscious, a belaboring of theme by one not yet sure of his art.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Kubrick's lugubrious, arresting, disavowed feature debut
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Shane Burridge
It's probably the film's metaphorical riffs that Kubrick found most pretentious
Vague Visages
Jeremy Carr
Fear and Desire is more than just a curio for the Kubrick completist. It is indeed a genuinely revealing work.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The picture itself remains a Kubrick curio rather than an integral part of his filmography.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
It's a talky, eccentric little movie that no doubt would have puzzled but also intrigued anyone catching it on the bottom half of a double bill...
TV Guide
[A] highly promising first effort by one of America's premiere filmmakers.
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