SCARLET STREET (REMASTERED EDITION)

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• Release Year: 1945
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
• Plot: A box-office hit in its day (despite being banned in three states), 'Scarlet Street' is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's ('M', 'Metropolis') finest American film. But for decades, 'Scarlet Street' has languished on poor quality VHS tape and in colorized versions. Kino's immaculate new digital transfer, from a 35mm Library of Congress vault negative, restores Lang's extravagantly fatalistic vision to its original B&W glory.; ; When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson - 'Double Identity', 'Little Caesar') rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett - 'The Reckless Moment') from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges 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 satisfying 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 Cross while super-heavy Dan Duryea, as Kitty's pimp boyfriend Johnny, skillfully molds 'a vicious and serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tin horn.' (New York Times). Packed with hairpin plot twists form 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 its finest.
• Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan, Jess Barker, Charles Kemper, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Samuel S. Hinds, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Loft, Russell Hicks, Richard Abbott, John Barton, Rodney Bell, Richard Cramer, Dick Curtis, Tom Daly, Edgar Dearing, Henri DeSoto, Joe Devlin, Tom Dillon, Neal Dodd, Ralph Dunn, Fred Essler, Byron Foulger, Lance Fuller, Gus Glassmire, Arthur Gould-Porter, Sherry Hall, William Hall, Chuck Hamilton, Herbert Heywood, Boyd Irwin, Thomas E. Jackson, Edward Keane, Cy Kendall, Milton Kibbee, Fritz Leiber, Ralph Littlefield, George Lloyd, Lou Lubin, Robert Malcolm, George Meader, Howard M. Mitchell, Horace Murphy, Clarence Muse, Lee Phelps, Rose Plumer, Constance Purdy, Beatrice Roberts, Dewey Robinson, Syd Saylor, Wallace Scott, Jack Statham, Kerry Vaughn, Emmett Vogan, Dick Wessel, Matt Willis, Charles C. Wilson, Will Wright, Fritz Lang, Georges de La Fouchardière, André Mouézy-Éon, Dudley Nichols
• Director: Fritz Lang
• Runtime: 1:41
• Company: King Video
• Media Format: Movie