Scarlet Street overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
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 famous painter, begins an affair with him. Encouraged by her lover, con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea) Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money from his employer in order to pay for her lavish apartment.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Fritz Lang
- Studio: Diana Cinematografica, Universal
- Year: 1945
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama, Crime
- Filmed in: B&W
