Editing Fear and Desire (section)

{{Short description|1952 film by Stanley Kubrick}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Fear and Desire
| image          = Fear and Desire Poster.jpg  <!-- Note, the poster advertises the film as part of a double-feature with "The Male Brute". -->
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| producer       = Stanley Kubrick
| writer         = [[Howard Sackler]]
| starring       = {{Plain list|
* [[Frank Silvera]]
* [[Paul Mazursky]]
* Kenneth Harp
* Steve Coit
* [[Virginia Leith]]
}}
| narrator       = David Allen
| music          = [[Gerald Fried]]
| cinematography = Stanley Kubrick
| editing        = Stanley Kubrick
| distributor    = [[Joseph Burstyn]]
| released       = August 18, 1952, [[Venice Film Festival]] (premiere)<br>{{Film date|1953|03|31|[[New York City]]|1953|04|01|U.S.}}
| runtime        = 70 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $39,000–$53,000<ref>{{cite book |title=The Film Director as Superstar |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdirectorassu0000gelm |url-access=registration |author-first=Joseph |author-last=Gelmis |year=1970 |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |location=Garden City, New York|page=xiv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Stafford |first=Jeff |title=Fear and Desire (1953) – Articles |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/74689/fear-and-desire#articles-reviews |access-date=December 4, 2014}}</ref>
}}

'''''Fear and Desire''''' is a 1952 American [[independent film|independent]]<ref name="50skubrick">[https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8181-the-criterion-channels-july-2023-lineup The Criterion Channel's July 2023 Lineup|Current|The Criterion Collection]</ref> [[List of anti-war films|anti-war film]] directed, produced, and edited by [[Stanley Kubrick]] in his directorial debut, and written by [[Howard Sackler]].<ref name=PD /> 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.'''''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-08 |title=Biennale Cinema 2022 {{!}} Stanley Kubrick's first film, Fear and Desire, at the 1952 Venice Film Festival, in the section titled ''Festival of the scientific film and art documentary'' |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/stanley-kubrick%E2%80%99s-first-film-fear-and-desire-1952-venice-film-festival |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}}</ref> Though the film is not about any specific war, it was produced and released at the height of the [[Korean War]].