Scarlet Street
1945 · Film-Noir · Drama · Black Comedy
Scarlet Street (1945), Fritz Lang's noir with Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett, banned by three city censors. Watch the full movie free, no account.
Edward G. Robinson is a meek cashier who paints on Sundays, Joan Bennett is the woman he thinks needs rescuing, and Dan Duryea is the man she is actually loyal to. Lang had used all three the year before in The Woman in the Window, and here he lets the trap close properly.
It is a remake of Renoir's La Chienne, and it was the first film out of Diana Productions, the company Lang set up with Bennett and her husband Walter Wanger. The Breen office passed it. Then the censors in New York, Milwaukee and Atlanta banned it outright in early 1946, because the killing goes unpunished by any court.
Lang's reply was that nobody who watched it would want the life he had put on screen.
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