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Scarlet Street

Name: Scarlet Street
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1945-12-25
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.604

★ 7,6 /10 (449 Votes)

1945 EN 103 min

Overview

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

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Release date

25/12/1945

Votes

449

Popularity

2.1

The things she does to men can end only one way - in murder!

Genres

Drama Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

103 min

Budget

$1,202,000

Revenue

$2,948,500

Edward G. Robinson

Christopher Cross

Joan Bennett

Katherine 'Kitty' March

Dan Duryea

Johnny Prince

Margaret Lindsay

Millie Ray

Jess Barker

David Janeway

Rosalind Ivan

Adele Cross

Charles Kemper

Homer Higgins

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Laura Michaels

Samuel S. Hinds

Charles Pringle

Vladimir Sokoloff

Pop LeJon

Arthur Loft

Dellarowe

Russell Hicks

J.J. Hogarth

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Richard Abbott

Critic at Gallery (uncredited)

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Rodney Bell

Barney (uncredited)

Richard Cramer

Principal Keeper (uncredited)

Dick Curtis

Detective (uncredited)

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Tom Daly

Penny - Bartender (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Policeman (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Joe Williams, Morning World (uncredited)

Tom Dillon

Policeman (uncredited)

William Hall

Policeman (uncredited)

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Robert Malcolm

Policeman (uncredited)

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Neal Dodd

Priest (uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

First Policeman in Park (uncredited)

Fred Essler

Marchetti (uncredited)

Lance Fuller

Minor Role (uncredited)

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Gus Glassmire

Employee (uncredited)

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Sherry Hall

Employee (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

Employee (uncredited)

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Ralph Littlefield

Employee (uncredited)

Howard M. Mitchell

Employee (uncredited)

Arthur Gould-Porter

Critic at Gallery (uncredited)

Boyd Irwin

Critic at Gallery (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Chauffeur (uncredited)

Herbert Heywood

Bellboy (uncredited)

Thomas E. Jackson

Chief of Detectives (uncredited)

Edward Keane

Detective (uncredited)

Dick Wessel

Detective (uncredited)

Cy Kendall

Nick (uncredited)

Fritz Leiber

Evangelist (uncredited)

George Lloyd

Vince Conway, Ledger (uncredited)

Lou Lubin

Tiny - Bartender (uncredited)

George Meader

Holliday (uncredited)

Horace Murphy

Milkman (uncredited)

Clarence Muse

Ben - Bank Janitor (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

First Policeman in Hogarth's Office (uncredited)

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Rose Plumer

Knitting Woman in Lobby (uncredited)

Constance Purdy

Matron (uncredited)

Beatrice Roberts

Secretary (uncredited)

Dewey Robinson

Derelict Saving Cross (uncredited)

Syd Saylor

Tom Crocker, Evening Globe (uncredited)

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Wallace Scott

Drunk (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan

Prosecutor (uncredited)

Matt Willis

Policeman in Hogarth's Office (uncredited)

Charles Cahill Wilson

Watchman (uncredited)

Will Wright

Globe Loan Office Manager (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland

Woman (uncredited)

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John Barton

Hurdy-Gurdy Man (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Jones - Apartment Manager (uncredited)

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www.noiroftheweek.com This week's Noir of the Week is Scarlet Street. Its one of my favorite films. Most of you already know the story and hopefully have seen the new release of the film on DVD from Kino International. The film was directed by Fritz Lang and was based on the 1930's French film, La Chienne. Scarlet Street is about a common bank cashier in the 1930s who succumbs first to vice and then murder. I won't give the plot away, because I'd run out of room writing all the film's twists and turns. What I enjoy about this film is the common man (played by Edward G. Robinson) i…

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If he were mean or vicious or if he'd bawl me out or something, I'd like him better. Christopher Cross, in middle aged, and in a life going nowhere and devoid of love and inspiration. Till one evening he rescues Kitty March from a mugger, it's the start of a relationship that has far reaching consequences for them, and those closest to them. The previous year director Fritz Lang had made The Woman In The Window, a film that was hugely popular with critics and fans alike. Here he reunites from that excellent film with Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, the result being wha…

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It's interesting to see Edward G. Robinson cast as the downtrodden bank cashier, trapped in a loveless marriage, who has a penchant for painting. He comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress "Kitty March" (Joan Bennett) who is having a tough time with her loutish boyfriend "Johnny Prince" (Dan Duryea). He falls for her hook, line and sinker only to discover she has assumed that he is a wealthy man and she tries to manipulate and embezzle from him. Soon, he is caught in a cyclical trap and we know he is heading for disaster. What is most odd is the sight of Robinson in an apron preparing some…

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Why on earth did they decide to colourize _Scarlet Street_? This is a film where every shadow, every drop of rain, and every grimy street corner needs to be black and white to intensify its moody, bleak atmosphere. The grayscale isn’t just aesthetic; it’s the very essence of the story’s dark descent and the bleakness surrounding its characters. Stripped of that stark, high-contrast style, it loses the bite and grit that makes it a quintessential noir. The decision to colourize it feels almost sacrilegious, robbing it of its noir identity and the raw power of Fritz Lang’s vision. This vision sh…

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