Edward G. Robinson
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Scarlet Street: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay. A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
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.
Johnny, certain Chris is a famous artist, takes some of his paintings to a street vendor, who assesses them as amateurish, but offers to try and sell them. The next day, the vendor brings art critic Arthur Janeway to see Johnny, who tells him that Kitty did the paintings.
87% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March (Joan Bennett).
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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.
1945 · 1 hr 43 min. TV-PG. Thriller · Crime · Drama. In one of Fritz Lang's finest American films, Edward G. Robinson stars as as a meek cashier who plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge.
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!
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.
Overview. 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.
