La Bete Humaine (1938) - (Movie Clip) The Heat Was Unbearable

La Bete Humaine (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Want People Looking At Me!

A train, of all things, interrupts engineer Lantier (Jean Gabin) when he gets carried away, while visiting hometown sweetheart Flore (Blanchette Brunoy), in Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine, 1938.

La Bete Humaine (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Lantier, Le Havre

After a prologue, cribbed from the original Emile Zola novel in his Rougon-Macquare cycle, the headlong opening scene from director Jean Renoir, in La Bete Humaine, 1938, much of it shot by the director's nephew Claude, in which Lantier (Jean Gabin) and Pecqueux (Julien Carette) bring their train into Le Havre.

La Bete Humaine (1938) -- (Movie Clip) You Men Are Disgusting

Wild shifts of tone and content as conversation turns to confrontation between corrupt husband Robaud (Fernand Ledoux) and young wife Severine (Simone Simon), after her shopping trip, in Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine, 1938.