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Fear and Desire (1953)

Name: Fear and Desire
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1953
Duration: 1 h 1 min
Cast: David Allen, Paul Mazursky, Frank Silvera, Virginia Leith

195362 minClassic DramaStrong rights evidence

Fear and Desire (1953) is a 62-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silver Screen (CH 2) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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About Fear and Desire (1953)

Fear and Desire is a 1952 American independent anti-war film directed, produced, and edited by Stanley Kubrick in his directorial debut, and written by Howard Sackler. With a production team of fifteen people, the film originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival, in a side program, under the title Shape of Fear.

Fear and Desire opens with an off-screen narration by actor David Allen who tells the audience: There is a war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, nor one that will be, but any war. And the enemies who struggle here do not exist unless we call them into being. This forest then, and all that happens now is outside history. Only the unchanging shapes of fear and doubt and death are from our world.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Fear and Desire (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast includes: David Allen, Paul Mazursky, Frank Silvera, Virginia Leith
Country: United States

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Silver Screen - CH 2, Classic Cinema

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Kubrick's first feature; copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Kubrick's first feature; copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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