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Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork.
A middle-aged cashier befriends a young woman and becomes a victim of her con scheme. Directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.
- (19K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1945-12-28
Dec 15, 2023 · Scarlet Street (1945) Language. English. Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook.
- 102 min
- 46
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Dec 31, 2014 · But while Scarlet Street has elements of film noir, it is in reality a black comedy. While Robinson plays it straight throughout, Bennett and Duryea camp it up marvelously. Bennett laughs when Robinson claims to be a painter: "And here I had you pegged as a cashier!"
- 101 min
Humble lowly bank cashier, tyrannised spouse, and amateur painter, Christopher Cross, finds an unexpected opening in his humdrum existence when he boldly comes to the aid of the blonde gold-digging femme fatale, Kitty March, attacked by her unscrupulous lover, Johnny Prince.
A crown jewel of Fritz Lang’s Hollywood years, Scarlet Street is film noir at its darkest and most dangerous: a simmering drama of crime and desire, rich in complexity and thrillingly uncompromised. Edward G. Robinson was never better, and Joan Bennett is a deliciously sleazy femme fatale!
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Directed by Fritz Lang. The things she does to men can end only one way - in murder! Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook.
