LA STRADA SCARLATTA
SCARLET STREET
Fritz Lang
Eng - Ita
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CREDITS
Directed by Fritz Lang
Produced by Walter Wanger, Fritz Lang
Written by Screenplay: Dudley Nichols
Story: Georges de La Fouchardière
Music by Hans J. Salter, Ernie Burnett ("Melancholy Baby")
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Editing by Arthur Hilton
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) December 28, 1945 (United States)
Running time 103 minutes
Country United States
Language English
CAST
Edward G. Robinson as Christopher Cross
Joan Bennett as Katherine (Kitty) March
Dan Duryea as Johnny Prince
Margaret Lindsay as Millie Ray
Jess Barker as David Janeway
Rosalind Ivan as Adele Cross
Arthur Loft as Dellarowe
Charles Kemper as Patch-eye Higgins
Russell Hicks as J.J. Hogarth
Samuel S. Hinds as Charles Pringle
Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Michaels
Vladimir Sokoloff as Pop LeJon
Cy Kendall as Nick
Tom Dillon as Policeman
PLOT
Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild banker and amateur painter is at a dinner honoring him for twenty-five years of service in the bank for which he works. On his way home, he helps Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral femme fatale who is apparently being attacked by a man. Soon, he becomes enamored of her because his own domestic life is ruled by his bullying wife Adele (Rosalind Ivan), who idolizes her former husband, a policeman drowned while trying to save a woman.
From Christopher's comments about art, Kitty mistakenly believes him a wealthy painter. It turns out that the attacker was Johnny, Kitty's brutish boyfriend (the film implies as strongly as possible under the Production Code that he's her pimp. The postage meter advertising slogan used by Universal Studios to promote the film pictures a woman leaning against a lamp post with a man nearby, a classic image of a prostitute, with whom she was arguing over money. Johnny convinces Kitty to pursue the relationship with Cross, in order to extort money from him. Kitty inveigles Cross to rent an apartment for her, one that can also be his art studio. They take an expensive apartment.
To finance this secret life, Cross steals from the bank. Meanwhile, Johnny tries selling some of Cross's paintings, attracting the interest of a famous art critic. Kitty is forced by Johnny to pretend she painted them, charming the critic, who promises to represent her. When Cross's wife sees her husband's paintings in a commercial art gallery as the work of Katherine March, she accuses him of copying March's work. Cross is glad his paintings are appreciated, albeit under Kitty's signature, and happily lets her become the public face of his art.
Meanwhile, the supposedly dead first husband of Cross's wife suddenly reappears. He explains he had not drowned, but had stolen money from the woman he supposedly was saving. Already suspected as corrupt, he had taken the opportunity to hide. With that, Cross understands his marriage will be invalidated when he confronts his wife with her live dead first husband. Having arranged that, he believes he can then marry Kitty, only to catch her in Johnny's arms. Shocked, he confronts Kitty, but still asks her to marry him; she taunts him in reply. Furious, he murders Kitty with an ice-pick. Johnny is accused, convicted, and put to death for Kitty's murder, despite his attempts to implicate Cross, who goes unpunished. At the trial, Cross denies he painted any of the pictures, however Cross's embezzlement is discovered and he is fired from his job. Posthumously, Kitty is recognized as a great artist.
At story's end, Cross, haunted by thoughts of Kitty, attempts to hang himself. He is rescued, but becomes a poor man with no way of claiming credit for his own paintings. He is haunted by Kitty and Johnny being together for eternity, loving each other.
TRAMA E GIUDIZIO CRITICO
dal Morandini - Dizionario dei film
Sposato a una megera, anziano cassiere e pittore dilettante s'innamora di una prostituta che spinta dal suo protettore gli vende i quadri come se fossero suoi. La uccide, ma è condannato l'altro. Rifacimento di La chienne (1931) di Jean Renoir che era tratto da una pièce di George de la Fouchardière, ma Lang, aiutato da un'ottima sceneggiatura di Dudley Nichols, ne ha cavato qualcosa di originale: una storia psicologica con un magico sottofondo da incubo.
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