Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

adrian-43767 I am afraid the DVD copy I found of SCARLET STREET is poor, worse even than many VHS copies - so that was a poor start. Robinson has a commanding performance as the aging man who appreciates beauty and thinks he can own it as one would own a painting. Bennett is very effective as the duplicitous woman who sponges off him to keep her amorous relationship with criminal Dan Duryea alive.I liked the film, but found Robinson's paintings as poor as the ending, with Robinson having voice hallucinations, and sleeping on a park bench.Fritz Lang's direction is very sound, and even enlightened at times, and this might even be, after THE BIG HEAT, one of his better films in the United States, but I was left with the impression that he missed some opportunities to make this a masterpiece. Still, it is well worth watching, at least once.

Rainey Dawn This one is better than I guessed it would be from the plot description. I quite enjoyed this gem! Edward G. Robinson is Christopher Cross - a man very lonely even though he's been married for 5 years. He's never had the love of woman and wants that in life so badly that he tried to get with a woman years younger than him, Katharine 'Kitty' March. Kitty is in-love with Johnny Prince who is NO Prince at all, in-fact he's a real jerk but so Kitty. Together Johnny and Kitty decide to try to take Christopher for all his money by Kitty playing on Chris' loneliness. Little does Kitty know that Chris is broke and ends up stealing money to give to Kitty because he's grown feelings for her. But things end up much worse than Johnny, Kitty or Chris ever planned for.There is a twist in the middle with Chris, and his wife Adele and her dead husband - that leads to an even stranger ending.Well worth watching, a very good mystery film! 9/10

preppy-3 Edward G. Robinson plays Christopher Cross a mild-mannered bank cashier. He's married to a mean vicious woman. One night he saves beautiful Katharine March (Joan Bennett) from being beaten up. They got out for drinks after and he lies to her and tells her he's a famous painter. He's fallen in love with her so she decides to use that against him and take him for everything he's got. She plans it all with her slimy boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea). Things get complicated and it all ends on a very negative and bleak note.Easily one of the darkest film noirs of the 1940s and one of the best. Well-directed and acted by almost everybody. The script is full of sharp dialogue and many twists and turns. Also it suggests strongly that March is a prostitute but doesn't come right out and say it. As it was this was banned outright is some parts of the US (which is ridiculous). The only negative thing here is Duryea. He plays his part WAY too broadly. He seems to act like he's in a comedy and not a drama. Still it's well worth catching.

MissSimonetta I would say not by much. Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street is honestly my favorite film of his: not only is it well made, it's just brutal in its view of humanity and fate.Edward G. Robinson makes Chris Cross one of the most pathetic noir protagonists: weak-willed and timid, he yearns for an existence better than his own, where he can quit his boring day job and paint his modernist works for a living. Trapped in a sexless and emotionally abusive marriage of convenience, he wants to be with young and lovely Kitty (played with pure venom by Joan Bennett), who unbeknownst to him is a prostitute in a sadomasochistic relationship with Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea, one of the great cinematic sleazes), who may or may not be her pimp as well. His chance encounter with her and her pimp's plot to fleece Chris for all he's worth leads to the darkest and grimmest of noir endings, where Chris cannot even end his own life to escape his misery.Definitely not a film if you want a pick me up, but it is a masterpiece. Equally expressionistic and naturalist (as in the naturalism of Stephen Crane or Jack London, with the idea of man as powerless before fate and/or his own environment), it is a riveting watch.