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A lonely cashier befriends a young woman and becomes a victim of her con scheme. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Fritz Lang-directed film.
- (19K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1945-12-28
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 cashier and amateur painter, Christopher Cross, falls for a gold-digging woman, Kitty, who conspires with her boyfriend Johnny to extort money from him. The film is a classic film noir about a man's mid-life crisis, betrayal, and murder.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March (Joan Bennett). Kitty plays along, but she's really only ...
- (17)
- Edward G. Robinson
- Fritz Lang
- Universal Pictures
A middle aged wouldbe painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman in this adaptation of a French novel and play. Watch the movie clips, read the reviews and learn more about the cast and crew of Scarlet Street.
- Fritz Lang, Melville Shyer
- Edward G. Robinson
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic film noir Scarlet Street, directed by Fritz Lang and based on a novel by Georges de La Fouchardière. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, cinematographers and more.
A bank cashier married to a nasty harridan of a woman (Rosalind Ivan, who had earned a reputation for playing insufferable wives; see the previous year’s The Suspect ), Christopher Cross (Robinson) makes the acquaintance of Katharine “Kitty” March (Bennett) who invites him for a drink and learns about his love of painting, mistaking him ...
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