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Virginia Leith and Paul Mazursky in an intense close-up scene outdoors from Stanley Kubrick's film Fear and Desire.
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Fear and Desire

film by Kubrick [1953]
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  • American director Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick
    / Early life and films

    …feature, an ultralow-budget war film, Fear and Desire (1953). Kubrick then scraped together the financing for another low-budget effort, a boxing-related film noir romance, Killer’s Kiss (1955). At this point he joined forces with producer James B. Harris to form Harris-Kubrick Productions. Encouraged by the respectable reviews for Killer’s Kiss,…

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    …feature, an ultralow-budget war film, Fear and Desire (1953). Kubrick then scraped together the financing for another low-budget effort, a boxing-related film noir romance, Killer’s Kiss (1955). At this point he joined forces with producer James B. Harris to form Harris-Kubrick Productions. Encouraged by the respectable reviews for Killer’s Kiss,…

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