Edward G. Robinson
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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.
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.
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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.
In Scarlet Street (based on a French novel and play, La Chienne, by Georges de la Fouchardiere and Andre Mouezy-Eon, filmed in 1931 by Jean Renoir), Robinson's patsy is subjected to even more debasement, some self-inflicted. Bennett's thinly-veiled prostitute character, Kitty, memorably nicknamed Lazy Legs by Johnny (Duryea's vaguely pimpish ...
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March (Joan Bennett). Kitty...
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Film-Noir | Scarlet Street (1945) Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea | Movie, Subtitles. Part-time artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March.
Nov 30, 2012 · Sure, Metropolis will knock your socks off. Sure, 'M' is a moody thriler. But there's nothing really like Scarlet Street. Part screwball comedy, part film noir psycho thriller. Sheer genius, beautiful cinematography by Milton Krasner. Edward G. Robinson gets to show his true colours as an art lover, too. Brilliant!
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.
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!
