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by George_Chabot  in Movies,  - Top 50, Apr 16 '06
Pros: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Direction, Story, Score, Cinematography
Cons: Scarlet Street deserves a bigger audience
Scarlet Street (1945) “Paint me, Chris! They’ll be masterpieces.” Kitty March This is one of the gems of the film noir genre, which makes it doubly sad that it has slipped into the public domain, as so many great films have. ...
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by tbrown - Top 500, May 06 '01
Pros: suspense, many plot surprises, acting
Cons: none
Even though Edward G. Robinson is best remembered for his tough-guy movie roles, he was one of Hollywood's most versatile and talented actors. He starred in roles playing everything from a cruel sea captain in The Sea Wolf, insurance...
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by pmills1210 in Movies, - Top 500, Nov 28 '08
Pros: Robinson, Bennett, Duryea, story, direction
Cons: Some story elements seem convenient
Late one night on a New York street, a middle-aged bank cashier happens on an incident between a young man and woman where the man winds up flat on his back. The banker wants to get a cop he saw on a nearby block, but she talks him out of it by saying ...
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by spelvini in Movies, , Nov 26 '06
Pros: fantastic Nihilist noir from Fritz Lang
Cons: bitter viewing at times theme-wise
I like a review containing a spoiler. I like to know all the plot details, because I'm more interested in how the artifice relates the story. I'm not so interested in where I am going so much as how I get there; Rosebud was a snow sled. In the ...
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by DavidMac - Top 500, Jul 01 '05
Pros: Actors, nasty script.
Cons: On a public-domain VHS tape in poor quality.
In one of my very typical film-watching anomalies, I’ve somehow managed to watch two of Fritz Lang’s Hollywood films, yet none of his European films. This even though Lang is probably best known for his German films M and Metropolis. ...
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by BrianKoller - Top 50, Jul 17 '00
Pros: direction, cast, script, humor
Cons: ending, 'film noir' styled dark lighting
German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of...
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