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Scarlet Street Reviews

1946

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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 .. Read more

Starring	Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker
Director	Fritz Lang
Genres	Drama

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  Fritz Lang is, of ...
  
  Fritz Lang is, of course, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. ?Metropolis? alone is enough to place him in a poetic pantheon of creators ? his other ... read more »
  
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  - wrongnumber76#1
  - LONDON
  - 17 Dec 2003 at 10:19
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  Great story, full of twists
  
  Great story, full of plot twists and turns. Robinson is a pathetic character, his overbearing wife monstrous. Bennett is a terrific amoral vamp and her ... read more »
  
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- 1084748
- - bobshaw5
  - 21 reviews
  - 23 Jan 2012 at 11:03
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  Quite watchable for fans of the era and genre
  
  A quirky little film of its type that just misses out on an extra half * (if you want to see a 3.5* Edward G film look at 'Woman in the Window' and you... read more »
  
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- - roncoach
  - 263 reviews
  - suffolk
  - 08 Sep 2011 at 00:15
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  Have confidence in your self or suffer this fate!
  
  Edward G at his best, a brilliant story which no-one comes out of well!
  
  A salutory tale for all of us lacking in confidence.
  
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- - Rhino96
  - 10 reviews
  - 08 Aug 2011 at 18:05
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  Streets Ahead
  
  Film Noir is one of the only genres that you can get away with packing the film with unlikable people. There doesn’t really need to be someone who is a ... read more »
  
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- - Samoza
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  - Reading
  - 21 Mar 2011 at 16:56
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  Underated Masterpiece
  
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  What absolutely struck me about this film was Edward G Robinson's ability to utterly transcend time in his ability to portray the character of a normal man ... read more »
  
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- - Sloegenie
  - 1 review
  - South Brent
  - 01 Jan 2011 at 18:54
- - 1
  - 0
  A Classic Film Noir - and Great Entertainment!
  
  This as near a perfect crime movie was one is going to get and it is gripping from the first scene onwards. The plot is complex, the characters interesting, the... read more »
  
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- 902540
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  - South East England
  - 01 Jul 2010 at 15:46
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  No crazy camera angles
  
  Don't expect any of Fritz Lang's slanted sets or crazy camera angles, this is fairly customary film noir I found. It's not plausible that two ne'... read more »
  
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- - InspectorSands
  - 209 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Mar 2010 at 11:26
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  the best of Classic Film
  
  the other reveiws yes .but too watch this movie is well ahead of its time .10 out of 10
  
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- - Declan6107
  - 138 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 29 Dec 2009 at 23:47
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  Scarlet Street
  
  Very similar to The Woman in the Window, not quite so good, but still very watchable with EGR.
  
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- - stumpymuffin
  - 49 reviews
  - Ramsgate
  - 28 Mar 2009 at 09:07
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  Not as old as you think
  
  Made in 1945, this film seemed a lot older, both in ther quality of the print and the rather old fashioned story, which I believe had been written in France in ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 591 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 22 Jun 2007 at 14:09
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  Fritz Lang is, of ...
  
  Fritz Lang is, of course, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. ?Metropolis? alone is enough to place him in a poetic pantheon of creators ? his other ... read more »
  
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- 26258
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  - wrongnumber76#1
  - LONDON
  - 17 Dec 2003 at 10:19
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  Lang in film noir territory
  
  Like 'You only live once' this is one of Fritz Lang's 'trap' movies where the main protaganist becomes progressively emeshed in a set of ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 18 May 2005 at 14:39
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  Scarlet Street
  
  I was very pleasantly surprised by the commentary on this DVD. Instead of the usual moronic drivel, we have an intelligent exposition of 'film noir', ... read more »
  
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- - sweetcorn
  - 7 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 19 Jan 2005 at 15:52
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  Classic Film Noir.
  
  When this was pushed through my letterbox I really didn't know what to expect. I wasn't disappointed, a superb story, brilliant direction and acting. ... read more »
  
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- - donna2
  - warks
  - 09 Feb 2005 at 18:55
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  A Classic Film Noir - and Great Entertainment!
  
  This as near a perfect crime movie was one is going to get and it is gripping from the first scene onwards. The plot is complex, the characters interesting, the... read more »
  
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- 902540
- - a customer
  - South East England
  - 01 Jul 2010 at 15:46
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  terrible quality dvd
  
  the poor rating for this film is not the content, but the dreadful quality of the dvd. i didn't actually watch beyond the first half hour because i didn&#... read more »
  
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  - east sussex
  - 25 May 2007 at 13:27
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  I lost those wings a long time ago.
  
  Robinson is typically solid as the impotent and inconspicuous cashier, a flawed character so lifelike that he easily bags your sympathy when he's ... read more »
  
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- - ChesterDent
  - 121 reviews
  - London
  - 04 Jun 2007 at 13:09
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  Not as old as you think
  
  Made in 1945, this film seemed a lot older, both in ther quality of the print and the rather old fashioned story, which I believe had been written in France in ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 591 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 22 Jun 2007 at 14:09
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  Scarlet Street
  
  Very similar to The Woman in the Window, not quite so good, but still very watchable with EGR.
  
  Report this review
- 733908
- - stumpymuffin
  - 49 reviews
  - Ramsgate
  - 28 Mar 2009 at 09:07
- - 0
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  the best of Classic Film
  
  the other reveiws yes .but too watch this movie is well ahead of its time .10 out of 10
  
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- 843185
- - Declan6107
  - 138 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 29 Dec 2009 at 23:47

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- Scarlet Street
  
  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) ...