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Scarlet Street [videorecording (
DVD
)].
Kino On Video, c2005.
Call #:
DVD
SCA
Dra
Series
Video Difference legacy collection.
Alternate title:
Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)].
Description:
1 videodisc (101 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Based on the novel by Georges de La Fouchardière.
Special features: Newly high-definittion digital transfer from the 35mm archive negative preserved by the Library of Congress ; audio commentary by David Kalat ; photo gallery (including images of deleted scenes).
"Presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress"--Container.
Home use only.
Production:
Walter Wagner presents a Diana Production ; directed by Fritz Lang ; screenplay by Dudley Nichols.
Performers:
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Rosalind Ivan and Margaret Lindsay.
Summary:
"A box-office hit in its day (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is perhaps legendary director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) finest American film. But for decades, Scarlet Street has languished on poor quality VHS tape and in colorized versions. Kino's immaculate new digital transfer, form a 35mm Library of Congress vault negative, restores Lang's extravagantly fatalistic vision to its original B&W glory. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson, Double Identity, Little Caesar) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett, The Reckless Moment) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris' obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated and transformed into an avenging monster before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfying downbeat denouement in the history of American film. Both Scarlet Street producer Walter Wanger's wife and director Lang's mistress, Joan Bennett created a femme fatale icon as the unapologetically erotic and ruthless Kitty. Robinson breathes subtle, fragile humanity into Cross while super-heavy Dan Duryea, as Kitty's pimp boyfriend Johnny, skillfully molds 'a vicious and serpentine creature out of a cheap, chiseling tin horn.' (New York Times). Packed with hairpin plot twists form screenwriter Dudley Nichols (Stagecoach) and 'bristling with fine directorial touches and expert acting' (Time), Scarlet Street is a dark gem of film noir and golden age Hollywood filmmaking at its finest."--Container.
Genre:
Film noir.
Crime films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
La Fouchardiere, Georges de, 1874-1946. Scarlet Street,
Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976.
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973.
Bennett, Joan, 1910-1990.
Duryea, Dan, 1907-1968.
Ivan, Rosalind, 1884-1959.
Lindsay, Margaret, 1910-1981.
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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD SCA Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Central Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD SCA Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD SCA Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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