Fear and Desire
Turkish title: Korku ve İstek
“Trapped… 4 desperate men and a strange half-animal girl!”
1953 · 1 h 2 min
Cast
Frank Silvera Kenneth Harp 
Paul Mazursky Stephen Coit 
Virginia Leith
Credits
Written by: 
Howard Sackler
Produced by: 
Stanley Kubrick
Plot
His first feature, about soldiers behind enemy lines.
Sinekatalog’s take
Stanley Kubrick's first feature is a stagey, philosophical war parable with soldiers stranded behind enemy lines. Amateurish and stilted, he later disowned it, but it hints at his visual precision.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.3 / 10 (15,749 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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