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When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt." Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. --Philip Kemp
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Fritz Lang |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 December, 1945 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Eureka Video |
| FEATURES: | PAL |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| UPC: | 050600401103 |
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Customer Reviews of Scarlet Street [Region 2]
Terrific film noir with beautiful Joan Bennett This is a great film noir starring the wonderful Edward G. Robinson, beautiful Joan Bennett and terrific Dan Duryea. Joan is spectacular in this film as the gold-digging hussy who in the beginning still has attacks of conscience. Duryea really plays it up as her sleazy con man boyfriend - smooth like vodka on the rocks. Robinson plays a sweet, harmless unhappily married man looking for someone who understands & appreciates him. The actress playing his wife is obnoxious and mean as a skunk. Duryea & Bennett take Robinson for a "ride" milking him for everything they can get. However, the "sweet and harmless" Robinson finally gets even with both of them - and they had it coming! The print quality of this dvd is pretty good - hopefully, they'll remaster it. I think this film is up there with "Out of the Past", "Double Indemnity", "Criss Cross". I just loved seeing Bennett play a sassy female turned vicious gold-digger with no heart. She was a terrific actress and never received the honors due.
EVIL THY NAME IS JOAN !
German born director Fritz Lang was a master of the mystery,suspense,noir genre.(Fury,The Big Heat) In this film he reunites the cast of his classic noir "THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW", Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea in a tale of murder and betrayal.To this reviewer the most riviting performance is that of the great (and beautiful) Joan Bennett.The way she deceives the naive Edward G. is a screen classic.Barbara Stanwyck, Claire Trevor,and Marie Windsor could also manipulate men by promising the moon and NOT delivering without a trace of remorse, Linda Darnell could also manipulate but, with at times, a heart of gold.(A LETTER TO THREE WIVES) but Joan here is unsurpassed in her greed.I don't like remakes of great films,but if a remake is made of Scarlett Street I vote of GINA GERSHON in the the Kitty March (Joan) role.GINA would set the screen on fire!
Dan Duryea on picking up girls
Edward G Robinson often played a tough guy, but he occasionally went in the opposite direction. In this movie he played a wimp, a henpecked nebbish, who snapped.
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>There are a few turnarounds to look for. The most obvious one is the moment when he snaps, when he changes from an abused wimp into a man who won't take any more abuse. The change doesn't fit him though, leading him to act out of character and do something he lives to regret.
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>An almost comedic turnaround happens when we meet his wife's previous husband. The shrewish and demanding wife always used that husband as a weapon to make poor Edward feel inferior, but when the prior husband suddenly appears in the flesh, not dead after all, he doesn't live up to his press clippings.
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>A striking turnaround occurs, in more ways than one, when Edward rescues a damsel in distress from a thief on the street who is pushing her around, only to find out later that his damsel in distress is in love with her attacker and thoroughly enjoys the distress he puts her through.
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>This femme fatale illustrates that many women feel sexual chemistry with confident, cocky men, not with nice, attentive guys who are eager to please. It's actually course 101 in how to pick up a girl, minus the slapping.
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>In fact, next time you think of buying a book to teach you how to win the interest of a new girl, don't buy the book, just watch Scarlett Street. Do what the villain does, and avoid doing or saying anything that Edward G Robinson says and does. Be cocky and brash, self centered and demanding, and you have just improved your odds.
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>Girls may like wimps as friends, but being too attentive too soon makes you look needy and desperate, and places you in the "friend" category right off the bat. Make her think she has to do her best to impress you, not the other way around. Watch Dan Duryea giving a lesson in how to make girls fall for you. Now you know why all the pretty girls went with gorillas in high school and ignored you.
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>The ending is a Hollywood ending. The human conscience is more punishing than the law could ever be. Somehow I doubt that. I can't picture Saddam Hussein tormented about all the poor Kurds he hurt. But this is Hollywood, not Iraq.
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>I could have accepted Robinson's torment as being unique to himself and therefore believable, but it is set up by someone's comment that this degree of remorse is to be expected. Baloney.
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>Other reviews on this site indicate that the film was forced into showing all the remorse because it was necessary to punish Robinson for his crime, without sending him to prison. I believe it. I believe that the moviemakers felt compelled to do that.
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>It explains but doesn't excuse the unreality of the ending. I could only buy that degree of remorse if they had set it up for me, as a very special case unique to this one character. They didn't.