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Scarlet Street comes from a brand new HDR / Dolby Vision master – from a 16bit 4K scan of the 35mm nitrate composite fine grain. It is presented on disc in a 1.37:1 HEVC 2160p (4K UHD) Dolby Vision encodement. The overall picture quality is uneven due to its age and its source, with some frames looking overwhelmed by film softness and grain ...
When the timid, middle-aged Chris Cross rescues a street-walking bad girl named Kitty from the gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, deception, and revenge.
Fritz Lang. Director. Georges de La Fouchardière. Novel. Dudley Nichols. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on December 13, 2018. 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.
Synopsis by Linda Rasmussen. 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.
Jan 30, 2024 · A box-office hit (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is one of legendary director Fritz Lang’s (M, Metropolis) finest American films.When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson, The Stranger) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett, The Woman in the Window) from the rain-slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back-lot Greenwich Village, he ...
Jun 27, 2017 · Story – Scarlet Street (1945) The movie begins at night on a busy city street in 1934. Outside a fancy club, there is an organ grinder and his monkey. I believe this is metaphorical for Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson). Inside the fancy club, they are having a black-tie celebration, Chris.
Oct 15, 2021 · Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork. The film is based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by ...
