Scarlet Street

Director: Fritz Lang Fritz Lang

Overview

In this powerful film noir, a lonely cashier who is an amateur painter lets a beautiful woman believe that he is a wealthy artist. She uses him badly, pretending that his paintings are her creations. But when he finds her in the arms of her con-man lover, violence erupts.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/18/2012
UPC:	0089859622724
Original Release:	1945
Rating:	NR
Source:	VCI VIDEO
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[stereo, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00

Special Features

Noveltoon Cartoon "When G.I. Johnny Comes Home"; Newsreel "Japan Surrenders"; Serial Chapter 1 of "Jungle Queen

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Edward G. Robinson	Christopher Cross,Derelict
Joan Bennett	Kitty March
Dan Duryea	Johnny Prince
Margaret Lindsay	Millie Ray
Rosalind Ivan	Adele Cross
Jess Barker	Janeway
Arthur Loft	Dellarowe
Samuel S. Hinds	Charles Pringle
Vladimir Sokoloff	Opo Lejon
Charles Kemper	Patcheye
Russell Hicks	Hogarth
Lou Lubin	Tiny
Anita Sharp Bolster	Mrs. Michaels
Cy Kendall	Nick
Fred Essler	Marchetti
Lee Phelps	Policeman
Matt Willis	Policeman
Robert Malcolm	Policeman
Edgar Dearing	Policeman
William Hall	Policeman,Employee
Ralph Dunn	Policeman
Tom Dillon	Policemen
Chuck Hamilton	Chauffeur
Gus Glassmire	Employee
Ralph Littlefield	Employee
Howard Mitchell	Employee
Jack Statham	Employee
Milton Kibbee	Saunders,Saunders
Tom Daly	Penny
George Meader	Holliday
Clarence Muse	Ben
John Barton	Hurdy Gurdy Man,Hurdy Gurdy Man
Emmett Vogan	Prosecution Attorney
Horace Murphy	Milkman
Will Wright	Loan Officer Manager
Syd Saylor	Crocker
Fritz Leiber	Evangelist
Dick Wessel	2nd Detective
Dick Curtis	3rd Detective
Joe Devlin	Williams
George Lloyd	Conway
Herbert Heywood	Bellboy
Charles Wilson	Watchman
Constance Purdy	Matron
Wallace Scott	Drunk
Edward Keane	Detective
Arthur Gould-Porter	Critic
Boyd Irwin	Critic
Richard Abbott	Critic
Thomas Jackson	Chief of Detectives,Chief of Detectives
Dick Cramer	Principal Keeper,Actor
Neal Dodd	Priest
Kerry Vaughn	Blonde Girl
Beatrice Roberts	Secretary
Byron Foulger	Apartment House Manager Jones
Rodney Bell	Barney
Henri DeSoto	Waiter
Lance Fuller	Actor
Anita Bolster	Mrs. Michaels
Thomas P. Dillon	Policeman
H.J. Salter	Composer

Technical Credits

Dudley Nichols

Georges de La Fouchardière

André Mouézy-Éon

Fritz Lang	Director,Producer
Dudley Nichols	Screenwriter
John P. Fulton	Special Effects
Georges de La Fouchardière	Screenwriter
André Mouézy-Éon	Screenwriter
Walter Wanger	Producer,Executive Producer
Glenn E. Anderson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Bernard B. Brown	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

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 murder, while Robinson's character gets off free. Lang's daring, almost assaultive imagery divided critics and audiences who might have expected less Gothic melodrama. Robinson and Bennett are chilling villains in an era when it was rare not to tack on a happy, or at least moralistic, ending. The script was adapted by Dudley Nichols from a French play filmed by Jean Renoir as La Chienne.