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SHORT VERSION: Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely cashier married to a nagging widow Adele (Rosalind Ivan). Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. After a party celebrating his 25 years on the job, he sees Kitty (Joan Bennett), a comely young woman, being accosted by Johnny (Dan Duryea). Chris knocks Johnny out.
SCARLET STREET. Directed by. Fritz Lang. United States, 1945. Drama, Crime, Film noir. 102. Synopsis. When the timid, middle-aged Chris Cross rescues a street-walking bad girl named Kitty from the gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, deception, and revenge. Synopsis.
The things she does to men can end only one way - in murder!When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him ...
Reuniting the lead cast (Edgar G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea) and employing the same story premise (an insecure, older man meets a beautiful woman on the street, which leads to his downfall) used in his The Woman in the Window the year before, Fritz Lang struck noir gold again with Scarlet Street, but if the earlier film ends tidily and relatively happily, the latter film makes up for ...
12 de jun. de 2013 · Scarlet Street is an American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne (The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previ...
3 de mar. de 2012 · Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a gripping and forgotten classic of the film noir era. Lang, being one of the several German filmmakers that helped shaped and mold and experiment with the film medium, arrived in Hollywood in the late 1930s, but most of his post-silent era output – while never suffering in quality – was largely ignored by the popular society.
16 de feb. de 2014 · Watch on. Scarlet Street – while certainly more modest in its ambitions than Lang’s M and Metropolis – is still highly effective; it succeeds as a disturbing drama, a portrait of male neurosis and as a potent depiction of abusive relationships. The most dominant theme is emasculation, which is embodied powerfully in Robinson’s meek ...
