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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 ...
1 de may. de 2018 · Story – Scarlet Street (1945) The movie begins at night on a busy city street in 1934. Outside a fancy club, there is an organ grinder and his monkey. I believe this is metaphorical for Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson). Inside the fancy club, they are having a black-tie celebration, Chris.
SHORT VERSION: Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely cashier married to a nagging widow Adele (Rosalind Ivan). Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. After a party celebrating his 25 years on the job, he sees Kitty (Joan Bennett), a comely young woman, being accosted by Johnny (Dan Duryea). Chris knocks Johnny out.
16 de feb. de 2014 · Scarlet Street – while certainly more modest in its ambitions than Lang’s M and Metropolis – is still highly effective; it succeeds as a disturbing drama, a portrait of male neurosis and as a potent depiction of abusive relationships. The most dominant theme is emasculation, which is embodied powerfully in Robinson’s meek Christopher Cross.
When the timid, middle-aged Chris Cross rescues a street-walking bad girl named Kitty from the gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, deception, and revenge.
28 de mar. de 2022 · My streaming gem: why you should watch Scarlet Street. W hen Joseph Goebbels offered him the chance to become head of film-making in Nazi Germany, director Fritz Lang wondered if it might be time ...
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Scarlet Street (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Speaking Of Time Boss J-J (Russell Hicks) conducting ceremonies at the dinner marking 25 years of service by lowly cashier Chris (Edward G. Robinson), opening Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, 1945, from Dudley Nichols' screenplay.
