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Scarlet Street DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 103 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Studio: VCI
  • DVD Release Date: September 18, 2012
  • Director: Fritz Lang
  • Cast: Edward Robinson , Joan Bennett , Dan Duryea , Margaret Lindsay , Rosalind Ivan , Jess Barker , Arthur Loft , Samuel Hinds , Vladimir Sokoloff , Charles Kemperer , Russell Hicks , Lou Lubin , Anita Bolster , Tom Dillon
  • Genre: Drama
  • Color: Black & White
  • Release Date: 1945
Robinson portrays a middle-aged clothing store cashier whose life is tragically changed when he becomes involved with Kitty (Joan Bennett), a predatory manipulating woman. He is a quiet and mild-mannered man, but his wife is a total shrew and so his chance meeting with Kitty leaves him easy prey for her schemes, which pull him deeper and deeper into a world of crime and deception. Events take an unexpected turn and the ending is one of those neat twists that go against the usual formula. This was a controversial film in its day and was banned for some time, probably because of the eventual fate of Robinson's character. One of those moody, darkly shadowed dramas at which Lang excels. A remake of Jean Renoir's La Chienne, adapted by Dudley Nichols.

Expert Review:
After making “The Woman in the Window” with director Fritz Lang in 1944, Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson and Dan Duryea regroup for more intrigue, manipulation and twisted love in a story based on Jean Renoir’s “La Chienne” from 1931. The sense of doom is almost palpable and you might wonder how Lang got this ending past the censors. Cynical, stylish and very entertaining, it was one of Lang’s favorites of his American oeuvre. By Jacqueline Fitzgerald of Film Noir Blonde

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