Scarlet Street

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Scarlet Street

1945

1h 46m

Crime

Drama

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A woman's fiancé persuades her to con a man out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

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Jaime N. Christley

Slant Magazine

In his images and his storytelling, Lang drew together masses of intersecting lines, steel cables that pulled his characters to their doom or their reward.

Feb 6, 2024

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Marjory Adams

Boston Globe

You can be assured that Mr. Robinson, Miss Bennett and Mr. Duryea give their best melodramatic efforts to this study of crime and its sure punishment.

Dec 31, 2020

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Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)

San Francisco Examiner

Miss Bennett matches her previous excellent acting as the hard and brittle damsel with a penchant for maribou trimmed negligees, trashy literature and easy living.

Jan 5, 2022

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Quite hilariously, loud mouths, circumstantial evidence, misplaced fame, moralistic conundrums, and inescapable guilt ensure that everyone will get what's coming to them.

Rated: 8/10

Aug 14, 2020

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

Lesser known perhaps but no less accomplished than some of [Lang's] more famous works.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 6, 2019

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

[UPDATED 2024 4K + BLU-RAY REVIEW] A film noir so potent for its time that it was banned in Atlanta, Milwaukee, and the entire state of New York.

Rated: 3.5/4

Apr 25, 2012

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Mark H.

Razor sharp. Wolves in sheep's clothing all around.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/26/25

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Alain E

A very impressive crime melodrama. The characters are fleshed out and their actions obey an inner logic. The hero is a vanilla conventional company employee who marries his landlady and afterwards his conjugal duties are limited to doing the dishes by hand. One fateful night he sees an attractive young woman being abused by her male companion and comes to her rescue. Subsequently, he falls head over heels over her, not realizing that she and her boyfriend have reconciled and they are using him as a source of income. Things progress from financial crimes to actual murder. Bodies accumulate and our hero tortured by guilt ends up a homeless bum. We learn hat crime doesn’t pay, but naive art does. Details on the screen. Tubi has a nicely restored copy.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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Audience Member

One of the greatest film noirs ever made. A masterpiece, and arguably the very best movie Fritz Lange ever directed. The casting, the screenplay, the acting, the camera work, everything about it flawless.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/28/24

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Rare T

Scarlet Street can get messy, especially around the end, and that is in reference to both the story and the picture itself. It does feature some impeccable acting and execution, and a few messages for life sprinkled around here and there.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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acsdoug D

Not a bad noir, although the ending was a little disappointing. To be fair to the film makers the Hayes Code would have prevented them from ending it any other way.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/09/24

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Charles C

A good film with good actors well worth watching

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/21/24

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Synopsis

A woman's fiancé persuades her to con a man out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Fritz Lang
Screenwriter: Dudley Nichols, Georges de la Fouchardière, Andre Mouézy-Éon
Distributor: Universal Pictures, Film Classics Inc., Corinth Films [us], Hollywood Classics, Reel Media International [us], Take 2 Video, Questar, LS Video, Video Yesterday
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions, Inc., Diana Production Company
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 28, 1945, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 28, 2016
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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