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Scarlet Street (1945)

Name: Scarlet Street
Director: Fritz Lang
Genre: drama film, film noir, crime film
Rating: 7.7

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 by Georges de La Fouchardière, which had been previously dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.

Directed by Fritz Lang · Shot by Milton Krasner · Cut by Arthur Hilton · Music by Hans J. Salter

Behind the scenes

Scarlet Street -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 56) — Learning about Movies · 7 min

Elsewhere

More by Fritz Lang

Halbblut — 1919
Der Herr der Liebe — 1919
Harakiri — 1919
The Spiders — 1919
The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake — 1919
Das wandernde Bild — 1920
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship — 1920
Vier um die Frau — 1921
Destiny — 1921
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler — 1922
Dr Mabuse: The Fatal Passions — 1922
Kriemhild's Revenge — 1924
Siegfried — 1924
Metropolis — 1927
Spies — 1928
Woman in the Moon — 1929
M — 1931
'M' — 1931
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse — 1933
Liliom — 1934
Fury — 1936
You Only Live Once — 1937
You and Me — 1938
The Return of Frank James — 1940
Western Union — 1941
Man Hunt — 1941
Confirm or Deny — 1941
Moontide — 1942
Hangmen Also Die! — 1943
Ministry of Fear — 1944

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