The red Street

the red Street ( Scarlet Street ) is an American film of Fritz Lang left in 1945.
Basé on the novel of Georges of Fouchardière, it is the remake of the Bitch , film of Jean Renoir left in 1931.

Synopsis

Christopher Cross-country race, called Chris, cash clerk without stories and married with a woman whom he does not love, painter amateur, crosses one evening the road of Kitty which he believes to save of an aggression whereas it nothing but does quarrel with her lover. It falls in love from there. The lover of Kitty, Johnny, incites the latter to make walk Cross, which was done passed for a painter in sight, in order to tap money to him. It makes him rent an apartment where he will be able to place it and to maintain it while painting. Chris is obliged to fly in the case of its work to obtain money. The lover resells into soft the tables of Chris with the complicity of Kitty, indeed, these tables are of great interest for an art critic which buys them very expensive. Chris seeks to get rid of his wife, Adele. It meets by chance her former husband, a former detective held for death. This one proposes to him to turn over with Adele if Chris gives him money. Chris accepts but it is obliged to still fly in the case. Previously, Adele passed in front of a gallery which exposes fabrics which resemble those of her husband, but signed name of Kitty. She shows her husband to have copied famous works of this painter. This one goes then in front of the gallery and recognizes its fabrics… Chris goes then to Kitty and realizes that this one is in fact in love with Johnny. It returns later the same day and speaks in Kitty, which acknowledges to him that she was played of him of promising her love to him. On an act of madness, it kills it with an ice pick. Chris has just time to leave the house before Johnny does not arrive. This one is then shown murder and it is carried out with the prison of Sing Sing. Chris is reached by the madness (expensive topic in Fritz Lang) and, after having tried in vain to denounce, seeks to be killed. It is saved in extremis, but it is returned of its work of cash clerk; its owner, J.J., having discovered that it flew in the case. It later is re-examined six years, while begging, obliged to sleep on benches public.

Distribution

  • Edward G. Robinson: Christopher Cross-country race

  • Joan Bennett: Kitty March
  • daN Duryea: Johnny Prince
  • Margaret Lindsay: Millie Ray
  • Jess Barker : David Janeway
  • Rosalind Ivan: Adele Cross
  • Arthur Loft: Dellarowe
  • Charles Kemper: Higgins one-eyed the
  • Russell Hicks: J.J. Hogarth
  • Samuel S. Hinds: Charles Pringle
  • Anita Sharp-Bolster: Michaels
  • Vladimir Sokoloff: Pop LeJon
  • Cy Kendall: Nick
  • Tom Dillon: Police officer

Around film

  • the fabrics painted by Christopher Cross have in fact be create by the American artist of German origin John Decker, purposely for film.

See too

  • '' the red Street '' in its original version (public domain) on the site of Internet Files
  • Videoartworld: The Masters Series (Films and documentary on line)
  • Card IMDb

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