Fear and Desire (DVD)

Four soldiers find themselves behind enemy lines after their plane is shot down during the war. Desperate to elude the enemy, the men attempt to build a raft. They are approached by a strange peasant girl speaking a language unfamiliar to them. Rather than try to communicate, they tie the beautiful girl to a tree. As the hours drag on, the increasingly-anxious soldiers are driven to the brink of madness by their fear of being captured...a fear that will drive them to do unspeakable things...In 1953, twenty-four-year-old Stanley Kubrick was still best known as a photographer for Look magazine. What he really wanted, however, was to be a filmmaker. With the financial assistance of his wealthy uncle Martin Perveler, the owner of a chain of drug stores, Kubrick amassed $10,000 to shoot Fear and Desire, from a script written by his friend Howard Sackler (later to win a Pulitzer Prize for his play The Great White Hope, made into a movie in 1970 starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander.)