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Scarlet Street
- Format: Blu-ray
- Release Date: 28/02/2012
Scarlet Street
- Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan, Jess Barker, Charles Kemper, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Samuel S. Hinds, Vladimir Sokoloff
- Directors: Nineteen Forty-Five, Fritz Lang
- Genre: Mystery / Suspense, Film Noir
- Closed Caption: No
- Original Language: ENG
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Year of Release: 1945
- UPC: 738329088729
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A box-office hit in it's day (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's (Metropolis) finest American film. Kino's immaculate 1080P transfer, from a 35mm Library of Congress vault negative, restores Lang's extravagantly fatalistic vision to it's original B&W glory. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity, Little Caesar) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett - the Reckless Moment) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back lot Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris' obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated and transformed into an avenging monster before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfyingly downbeat denouement in the history of American film. Both Scarlet Street producer Walter Wanger's wife and director Lang's mistress, Joan Bennett created a femme fatale icon as the unapologetically erotic and ruthless Kitty. Robinson breathes subtle, fragile humanity into Chris Cross while film noir super-heavy Dan Duryea, as Kitty's pimp boyfriend Johnny, skillfully molds "a vicious and serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tin horn." (The New York Times). Packed with hairpin plot twists from screenwriter Dudley Nichols (Stagecoach) and "bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting" (Time), Scarlet Street is a dark gem of film noir and golden age Hollywood filmmaking at it's finest.