Scarlet Street - BLU-RAY

Christopher 'Chris' Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is an amateur painter and cashier for a clothing retailer. He is bored with his life and work, and especially his shrew of a wife, Adele (Rosalind Ivan). After a work celebration for his twenty-five years of service, Chris sees his employer getting into a car with a much younger woman. As Chris walks home he tells a co-worker he wonders what it would be like to be loved by a young girl. Suddenly, he comes across a woman being attacked by a man. Chris beats the attacker off with his umbrella. The woman he has defended is Kitty (Joan Bennett), a fast-talking femme fatale. Chris is unaware that Kitty's attacker is Johnny (Dan Duryea), Kitty's brutish boyfriend. It isn't long before the plot thickens and everything spirals out of control in Chris' life. This film is a powerful and often disturbing portrait of human relationships, emotions and consequences. A must-see film! (101 minutes - 1945 - Black & White - 4 3)

Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett star in director Fritz Lang's compelling adaptation of Georges de La Fouchardière's novel, InchLa Chienne.Inch Weak-willed, unhappily married aspiring painter Chris (Robinson) is befriended by the greedy, manipulative Kitty (Bennett) and her predatory lover, Johnny (Dan Duryea), and lured by them into a scam that involves Kitty passing Chris' art off as her own. With Margaret Lindsay. 101 min. Standard; Soundtrack English DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles English. Two-disc set.

Robinson portrays a middle-aged clothing store cashier whose life is tragically changed when he becomes involved with Kitty (Joan Bennett), a predatory manipulating woman. He is a quiet and mild-mannered man, but his wife is a total shrew and so his chance meeting with Kitty leaves him easy prey for her schemes, which pull him deeper and deeper into a world of crime and deception. Events take an unexpected turn and the ending is one of those neat twists that go against the usual formula. This was a controversial film in it's day and was banned for some time, probably because of the eventual fate of Robinson's character. One of those moody, darkly shadowed dramas at which Lang excels. A remake of Jean Renoir's La Chienne, adapted by Dudley Nichols.