Scarlet Street (1945)




Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson - Scarlet Street




A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.


Books with substantial mentioning of Scarlet Street

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Tom Gunning
The films of Fritz Lang, Allegories of vision and modernity
London, 2000

Jonathan Munby
Public Enemies, Public Heroes, Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Chicago and London, 1999

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Books with an entry on Scarlet Street

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Robert Beck
The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2002

Articles on Scarlet Street

Charles Tesson, Le tribunal de la conscience, in: Cahiers du Cinema, nr. 652 (Janvier), 2010 pp. 82

Articles with substantial mentioning of Scarlet Street

Alain Silver and Robert Porfirio, Fritz Lang (1890-1976), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002