Scarlet Street - Fritz Lang - 1945 - Film Noir

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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.
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Georges de La Fouchardière (novel and play "La Chienne"), André Mouëzy-Éon (novel and play "La Chienne" in collaboration with), Dudley Nichols (screen play)
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Trivia
One of Fritz Lang's personal favorites of his own films.

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Goofs
The story takes place in 1934, but all of Margaret Lindsay's and Joan Bennett's clothes, shoes and hairstyles are strictly in the 1945 mode, which had considerably changed during the intervening eleven years. The featured taxicab is of late 1930s vintage, about three years too new.

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Quotes
Adele Cross: Next thing you'll be painting women without clothes.

Christopher Cross: I never saw a woman without any clothes.

Adele Cross: I should hope not!

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Alternate versions
Also available in a computer colorized version.

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Connections
Edited into This Is It (2009)

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Soundtracks
Melancholy Baby
(uncredited)
by Ernie Burnett and George A. Norton