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Fear and Desire
1952
· Movie
· 62 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Every rating
23–70
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 23, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 70. Critics average 70, everyone else 46.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Howard Sackler
- Studio
- Stanley Kubrick Productions
- Released
- 31 March 1953
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 62 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $53.0K
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