Average Rating: 8/10
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Release Date: Dec 28, 1945 Wide
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) who, believing him to be a famous painter, begins an affair with him. Encouraged by her lover, con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea) Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money from his employer in order to
Dec 28, 1945 Wide
Feb 19, 2002
Acme DVD Works
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (0) | DVD (8)
A film noir so potent for its time that it was banned in Atlanta, Milwaukee and the entire state of New York.
The first of Fritz Lang's jaundiced American noirs to make it to Blu-ray in a beautifully crisp transfer whose material flaws are far easier to forgive than a dame that done you wrong.
Powerful film noir, of a poor clerk lured into a tragic love story.
Scarlet Street is arguably the darkest of Lang's American films.
An uncompromising subversive remake of Jean Renoir's La Chienne (1931).
They seldom get any darker than this.
Never have I encountered a film that involves a painter, where I actually cared so much about what happened to him. I felt terrible every time he was lured into another trap. This film revolves around the life of a cashier as he paints for fun on the side. His dream is to eventually sell his paintings, but can never
November 11, 2011Super Reviewer
Edward G. Robinson is cast against type as the timid and meek Chris Cross in this truly classic film noir that starts with a chuckle and ends with a wrecking ball straight to the gut.
January 21, 2009
Super Reviewer
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