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Scarlet Street. 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. The film is based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, which had been previously dramatized on stage ...
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.
- (19K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fritz Lang
- 1945-12-28
Oct 15, 2021 · Friday Film Noir: Scarlet Street. In a private party set up by J. J. Hogarth (Russell Hicks), president of one of New York’s largest banks, honours are bestowed upon the company and its employees for their diligent service. Among those celebrated is Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), faithful cashier for 25 years.
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Film noir was born in the somber, stylized shadowplay of German Expressionist cinema. As Fritz Lang was one of its creators, it followed that Hollywood noir proved the cornerstone of his self-reinvention in America after fleeing the Nazis in 1933.
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 ...
