Scarlet Street
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Dudley Nichols, Georges de La Fouchardière
Producer: Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger
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 (literally The Bitch) 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.
Trivia
- Based on La Chienne (1931 film by Jean Renoir).
- Following the success of The Woman in the Window (1944), director Fritz Lang formed a film company named Diana Productions with producer Walter Wanger and actress Joan Bennett, Wanger's wife and the star of The Woman in the Window.
- Lang owned 51%, Bennett owned 25%, and the rest was split up among other people.
- Lang discovered that Ernst Lubitsch had convinced Paramount Pictures to buy the rights to Jean Renoir's 1931 French film La Chienne, which Lang saw in 1932.
Filming Locations
- Universal built sets for Scarlet Street on its backlot because Lang was not given permission to film the exterior scenes at Greenwich Village.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 6 Festivals
5,694 tickets sold
All runs on record (7):
- January 9 - 12, 1997 · 1,992 ticketsw/ Double Indemnity, Down Argentine Way
- December 1 - 3, 1999 · 471 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ The Woman in the Window
- November 13 - 15, 2002 · 375 ticketsFall Folliesw/ Gun Crazy
- February 28 - March 2, 2009 · 876 ticketsWinter 2009w/ Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
- July 22 - 24, 2015 · 657 ticketsSummer 2015 Forty Classics from the Golden Age Including Kurosawa in Augustw/ Father of the Bride
- November 18 - 19, 2023 · 593 ticketsUniversal Pictures: Horror and Morew/ Phantom Lady
- September 21 - 22, 2024 · 730 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Gun Crazy