Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It is extremely fascinating to view this Fritz Lang movie side by side with Jean Renoir's La Chienne, adapted from the same French novel as this film. While I have not read the book, it would seem that both films follow the novel rather devoutly since in terms of narrative content, the two works are extremely similar. Yet, they are completely different works with entirely different visions of the world. Lang produced some very interesting, distinctive work in the USA, and even in the major studios. And there are impressive moments in Scarlet Street. The sets of Greenwich Village are wonderfully moody and indicative of Lang's roots in German Expressionist silent film. The scene where the main character fends off a woman's attacker in a dark, urban night is, I think, more beautiful than it's equivalent in Renoir's version. All in all, however, Scarlet Street finds Lang impelled to make what is ultimately a very Hollywood film from a very European source. Every character here is motivated by PSYCHOLOGY- they are impelled by an inner drive towards one particular thing and their actions can only have one possible out come. The meaning of the world of Lang's movie is written in stone, and so is its sense of justice and morality. Perhaps more blatantly than most Hollywood films, the message for the viewer of this sad tale is to accept their place in the social order. Renoir's work is ultimately a comedy about the unpredictability of life. The bizarre coincidences that characterize both versions of the story here seem entirely at home in this world, whereas in the American film they come to seem like simply sloppy story-telling. There is no meaning or morality in Renoir's great movie. There is only the ecstatic anarchy of being. Deleuze would have had a field day comparing the two films. I wonder if he ever did so....

This could of made a nice 80min drama. The story is totally unbelievable which in turn makes the end seem overly tragic. It's to slow compared with some of the great film noirs.

The Scarlet Street has a semblance of Film Noir, but it doesn't have a male (usually) lead disillusioned and at odds with a post war society, but more disillusioned with the world. And as the movie begins we can immediate empathize and connect with Robinson's character, and from this connection we truly feel what it's like for him when he loses everything, from making that one choice in his life. Director Lang, truly makes the film one of the most depressing shocking pieces of cinema that has to be seen, most people don't really want to see a movie that not going to have a happy ending, but seeing this film will be worth it. It's so rich in cinematography, acting, editing, director influence, it would be a shame not to see it

Scarlet Street was a movie that some could say portrayed a modern day prostitute and pimp scenario, or a prostitute with a client. Kitty one of the main actresses lives a double life, she takes advantage of a "mature" gentleman Chris Cross who is a famous painter at the time in New York City. Kitty is in a relationship with an abusive significant other and just wants to be treated like a proper women. Later on in the movie Kitty reveals that she was just using Chris for his money, and he is distraught with emotion by this. Fritz Lang did a wonderful job directing by leaving you with a cliff hanger of a ending not your typical Hollywood style happy ending, but one more full of gluttony and shame. He also has a spectacular eye while character portrayal from angles and foreshadowing with the light placement. I would say this is a good movie if you enjoy classical mystery/ thriller. Also the twist of the a classical character portrayal from outfits and style to a mid 1940's movie was excellent on the directors part. I enjoyed this movie and do recommend it to others.