Scarlet Street (1945) is another well-directed film noir from master Fritz Lang. As in the earlier Lang noir, The Woman in the Window, Edward G. Robinson plays the dupe, Chris Cross, who has the bad luck to fall in love with the femme fatale "Kitty" (Joan Bennett). The henpecked cashier and weekend painter was living a quiet life of desperation before coming across the damsel in distress-she's being roughed up by her hoodlum boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea). Cross steps in and knocks him out and escorts the lady home and once hooked on Kitty, things are going to get worse. Lang does his usual impressive job with the black and white and getting the story across artfully visually.
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