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La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French crime drama film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, and is loosely based on the 1890 novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola.
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The railroad used to be an extremely popular motif in the first decades of cinema. France, where the Lumière Brothers' famous 1896 short *L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat* began the trend, appeared to be particularly susceptible to this fascination with steam-powered locomotion. More than four decades later, *The Human Beast* (known under its original French title *La Bête Humaine*) became one of the most c…More
