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Scarlet Street

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Scarlet Street
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NR,1hr 35min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1945
Director:
Fritz Lang
Distributor:
Alpha Video
Starring:
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea  ...more
Synopsis: Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) who, believing him to be a famous painter, begins an affair with him. Encouraged by her lover, con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea) Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money from his employer in order to pay ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
German-American master Fritz Lang produced and directed this gritty film noir for Universal Pictures, notable as the first Hollywood feature in which the real criminal goes unpunished. When a mild-mannered cashier (Edward G. Robinson) becomes enamored with an amoral woman (Joan Bennett), she ensnares him in an embezzlement scheme which leads to a murder. Her lover is fingered and executed for the ... Full Review
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Edward G. Robinson
Christopher Cross
Joan Bennett
Kitty March
Dan Duryea
Johnny Prince
Margaret Lindsay
Millie Ray
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