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Fear and Desire (1953) was a War - Drama Film directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by Stanley Kubrick.

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Fear and Desire (1953)

By John Grant on Mar 21, 2020 From Noirish

US / 61 minutes / bw / Kubrick Family, Joseph Burstyn Dir & Pr & Cine: Stanley Kubrick Scr: Howard Sackler Cast: Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Steve Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen The first feature movie of Stanley Kubrick, the one that so embarrassed him in later life that... Read full article

Fear and Desire (1953, Stanley Kubrick)

on Jan 19, 2009 From The Stop Button

Fear and Desire‘s a mess to be sure, but it’s hard to understand why Kubrick later strove to have it willfully forgotten. The film’s greatest faults–the script and the acting–pale when compared to Kubrick’s success as a director and editor. He described the film a... Read full article

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This was thought to be a lost film, and one researcher, Mark Carducci, had suggested that Kubrick destroyed the negative following the death of Joseph Burstyn, the film's distributor. Bootleg copies abound, however, and there is one (legal) print in all of the Americas. It is located in the Kodak archives in Rochester, New York; the Kubrick estate allows viewing of the film with the provisos that it is screened by individuals (not groups), that the print never leaves the building in which it is housed, and that it cannot be duplicated in whole or in part.
Stanley Kubrick got his uncle, a pharmacist, to put up most of the money to finance this film.
Stanley Kubrick's first wife, Toba Metz, worked as a Dialogue Director in the movie.
Stanley Kubrick insisted on setting up the lighting himself, as he liked to do, and did it without allowing a place for microphones. When his sound recordist Nathan Boxer objected, Kubrick fired him and recorded the sound himself.
Kubrick later denounced this film as amateurish, saying he considered it like a child's drawing on a fridge.
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