Dan Duryea was a fantastic Noir actor, who usually played pimps, gangsters and thugs, while, IRL, he was a family man, very wholesome and well thought of by his neighbors.
When I was a kid I remember seeing Duryea in various old films and TV shows so I always associated him with villains and outlaws and so disliked him. But when I got older I began to appreciate him as an actor, and started to look forward to a film when I saw his name in the credits. His best film is probably Ball of Fire with Barbara Stanwyck, but I like seeing him in anything. Most recently I saw him in the original version of Flight of the Phoenix, with Jimmy Stewart...a good film.
@dmytryk7887 Dan Duryea was brought to Hollywood from the Broadway production of THE LITTLE FOXES by Samuel Goldwyn. In BALL OF FIRE his character is named Pastrami ; great name for a gangster thug. His boss in Joe Lilac.
"Next thing you'll be painting women without clothes." "I never saw a woman without any clothes." "I should hope not!" Fun Fact: One of Fritz Lang's personal favorites of his own films. Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The car Johnny (Dan Duryea) pulls up in is a 1935 Packard Super Eight Sport Phaeton. In 2022 these cars can fetch well into six figures at auction. The Rest Of The Story Fact: Twelve paintings done for the film by John Decker were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for exhibition in March of 1946. Edward G. Robinson's character talks lovingly about art and says he wishes he owned a Cezanne. In real life, Robinson was a great collector of fine art and was considered an expert. Product Placement Fact: Although the beer bottles do not have their labels completely visible, enough of a shape is seen to identify them as Schlitz. The brewery was founded in Milwaukee in 1849. The concept of product placement in the movies was still several decades away, so names were intentionally hidden at the time of this film so legal complications would be avoided.
Scarlet Street came out in 1945, not 1947. Just a slight correction. I hope that you had a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🍽️ Go with God and Be Safe from Evil. 😎 👍
Another Joan Bennett movie you should see is “The Reckless Moment,” with James Mason, directed by Max Ophuls. She plays a mother who will go to any length to protect her child and she gives a sympathetic performance that is 180 degrees from her character in “Scarlet Street.” “Scarlet Street” is a tragedy, like “Vertigo” is a tragedy, and movie audiences are not usually very receptive to out-and-out tragedies. Give it some time and you might find you appreciate it more.
I think the point is it is sn unsettling ending. Because Chris was still an essentially good person, he couldn't just "move on" after causing the deaths if two people. Even though those two were horrible people. Thats the tragedy! Chris gets away with murder, but does he? 🤷♀️
This is a top 5 level noir for me! Gasped when I saw this was posted. A perfect movie across the board. Pitch black cynical without showing anything grisly. My favorite movie is Chaplin's City Lights and it has a similar plot device of a woman mistakenly believing a poor man to be rich, but where that film thinks the best of all its characters this one takes a similar situation and brings out the monstrousness of all involved. And yet, not one dimensionally. Chris is so good-hearted and it takes a lot of pushing before he debases himself the worst way one can. Kitty herself has the most intriguing moments of questioning their entire plan, but her nature is just twisted enough to go along with and ultimately relish in it unapologetically. Maybe if she didn't have Johnny as a corrupting influence she wouldn't have attempted such a crass, heartless scheme. Scarlet Street is all about playing with fate like that, how a simple criss cross can bring abject ruin to the lives of any person unlucky enough to be caught in just the wrong circumstances. Edit: Now that I've seen the whole reaction, no hard feelings that the ending was unsatisfying for you, Mia. I get it, Chris is way too likable for you to want to see him endure this. But I personally feel that's the entire point, kind of similar to Seymour's original ending in Little Shop of Horrors. No person gets a pass for murdering someone, even if you get their reasons and hate the person they're murdering. He *should* have to live with this, Kitty and Johnny being slime doesn't make it right what he did. But of course, we still care about poor Chris. That's the genius of the ending, it leaves you all tangled up inside.
Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennet are a criminally underrated and underappreciated duo. They are great together in this film as well as The Woman in the Window. They should be talked about more imo.
You are going to love Sweet Smell of Success. Clifford Odets wrote the screenplay with a pen dipped in acid. Lancaster and Curtis deliver career-defining performances and James Wong Howe’s cinematography captures Broadway at its seamiest.
Very nice analysis. I do wonder if the fact that Christopher is tortured with guilt was the only way this movie got Code approval. Anyway, I am still amazed by how many other Code rules Lang pushes to the breaking point in this film.
Joan Bennett said they knew the Code would be a problem, so they wrote 2 extra scenes with content that would never pass. Then they had bargaining power as in; 'We'll remove this if we can keep that'. By this time, Lang and Bennett had formed a production company, DIANA PRODUCTIONS as their numerous films as star and director were very successful. It also allowed them to have total control, Universal Studios released their films but had no imput.
Wow, thanks Mia! Another great film I’ve never seen.. I loved your reaction/ analysis… esp. the advice to not commit murder. LOL. Seriously, two immediate thoughts come to mind.. 1) Chris was at his happiest and most alive when he was most deluded… that is interesting. 2) I also thought the way the “trial” was handled with just isolated shots of the sequence of witnesses was brilliant. We didn’t need to see or waste time on the trappings of a courtroom, lawyers, etc. It was an elegant way to give us the testimonies compactly, and because we on some level accept this ‘shorthand’. I just loved that. Oh, also your comment about “seeing” the gold watch as gold colored was brilliant… I think that when watching a black and white film, something very interesting happens in our minds. When we absolutely know the color of something, we fill that into our mental picture, skin tones will be filled in as beige or whatever shade of tan/brown, sky will be blue and white, wood will be brown, gold, gold. More ambiguous items will not be assumed, a red or blue or green satin blouse… a gray or blue suit, etc. We must remember that our eyes are sensors that are feeding a story to our mind, but we truly “see” with our mind, not with our eyes. Thanks again, I really enjoyed this one!
I love this film . I found a CD copy in a one dollar bin in a department store in New Jersey . Joan Bennett was a local New Jersey girl from Fort Lee .
@cojaysea Joan Bennett is currently remembered for starring in the cast of DARK SHADOWS and in Dario Argento's film SUSPIRIA. However, she was part of a famous acting family : Father Richard Bennett was a Broadway star and cofounder of THE BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE in New Hope, PA. See him in IF I HAD A MILLION 1932. Sister Constance Bennett was a leading lady for many years. Sister Barbara was an opera singer and married to Morton Downey. Joan Bennett was born blonde as started her career as a blonde starlet. See her in LITTLE WOMEN 1933. Then in 1938 for the film TRADE WINDS she dyed her hair brunette. It revitalized her career, and involved her in a scandal in which her husband/producer Walter Wanger attempted to shoot her supposed lover. She was a brunette from 1938 onwards.
$150 in 1947 is about $2,123 today! The paintings were actually painted by California painter John Decker, who was a known artist at the time - the paintings were exhibited at MoMA in March, 1946. My mother lived in LA in the 1950's; she met Edward G. Robinson a few times, but said he wasn't very nice! She liked Dan Duryea though, and she dated Anthony Perkins (Psycho) for a while... But yeah, this movie broke a lot of the cultural ideals at the time - especially with the first depiction of an execution in the electric chair. I love this movie though, and have a bunch of original memorabilia from it. I'm glad you reacted to this - I was shocked to see someone actually interested in it!
"This Johnny guy, I don't know why he annoys me", because he is Dan Duryea and he's terrific at being a creepy scoundrel. He co-stars in the classic film noir Too Late For Tears or the excellent western Winchester '73, among over one hundred other roles.
This is an amazing film Mia you look absolutely beautiful I am loving your noir content if you haven’t watched Laura from 1944 I would highly recommend it Mia it’s a great film
Sometimes I like to come to adult movie channels... Tired of seeing nice people watching stupid movies. One is always grateful when one reaches the oasis, after wandering through the desert.
Good to see that you are watching this film noir classic and one of Lang's best. Fritz Lang made several attempts to circumvent the production code in this movie with several scenes of violence and sexuality (most of which were prohibited and not allowed to be shown and which have now been destroyed) but he did succeed in becoming the first film to show a murderer not being discovered, prosecuted and executed for his crime (although he is punished by feeling remorse). Another striking scene is the last mile where Johnny who thought he was so tough and such a big man squeals like a rat. Hope you will also watch The Woman in the Window.
Thank you, Mia, for reviewing Scarlet Street, my favorite noir film. Though it is pretty easy to guess how the film will proceed except near the end, the great performances by Edward G. Robinson and Dan Duryea always keep me intrigued. I felt bad for the major characters even though all 3 were not good people. Chris Cross did have a gentle, sweet personality but turned out to be a cheater, thief, and unaliver plus Kitty and Johnny were rotten so all of them met with bad ends.
If he were hobby painting copying someone else, it's no crime. I'm surprised his wife didn't think he was selling them behind her back, but I guess she'd have to think he'd done something worthwhile for that.
The transparent plastic raincoat was the secret code for a prostitute in 40's/50's films. There are a few films that show this, Dora Bryan in The Fallen Idol 1949 is one example.
Even if it's a movie, it should have some emotional cohesion and realism. If Chris hadn't killed Kitty, maybe things could end differently (or a hundred other steps slightly different).
Always confuse this and _The Woman in the Window._ Great double feature. Joan Bennett is the sister of Constance Bennett _(Topper)._ Joan went on to star in the (eventually) supernatural soap _Dark Shadows._
I like this movie; the plot is obviously similar to The Woman in the Window, but without that movie's terribly unsatisfying ending. I know there are lots of Edward G. Robinson movies I've never seen, but I'm really familiar with him in three kinds of roles: 1. The gangster (Little Caesar, Key Largo, even in a sense The Ten Commandments, with comic variations as in Robin and the 7 Hoods or Never a Dull Moment). 2. The man of integrity in a world of corruption (Double Indemnity, The Stranger, Soylent Green). And 3. The meek "Mr. Milquetoast" character (The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street). Have you seen the comedy The Whole Town's Talking? It's the only movie I know where Robinson has a dual role, as both the Milquetoast and the gangster types, and I think it's a lot of fun.
I wonder how you'd react to The Woman in the Window, which not only has the same cast and director but much the same plot, except for the ending. I find Scarlet Street upsetting in the same way you do, seeing the characters heading toward their bad endings you can see coming. It doesn't seem so much fate or karma as it does bad decisions and bad luck. But Woman in the Window's ending bothers me, too, by cancelling it all out, as if it all meant nothing.
I get being bothered by all that in Scarlet Street, but it's nothing more than what happens with people every day in reality, for the exact same reasons. You have to find fault in actual human behavior to find fault in Scarlet Street. Woman in the Window is definitely similar but I'm not sure it's the same plot. Bennett's character in Woman in the Window is a genuine good woman, for example.
I love Edward G Robinson but I don't like this film. I can't stand to see a good person taken advantage. His wife did, as well as Kitty and Johnny. I feel so bad for him. There was no winner in this film.
@bonitaburroughs8673 The entire overarcing theme of the film is the difference between the outer perception and inner reality. Some are subtle, others are glaringly obvious and some are nods to Universal films and in jokes. Chris's boss is a good kind man, yet he is supporting/dating a brassy blonde or is she really a sweet person? Chris married Adele, who is a nasty fish wife to end all nasty fish wives because she was his landlady who needed comfort when her husband died. The husband is extolled as a hero, but really is a self serving jerk, idolized in absentia like the Una Merkel/Mischa Auer characters in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN. Chris is a bank teller and Sunday painter. Kitty's first outfit is Hollywood code for street walker. Johnny is a smooth talking pimp & would be promoter who abuses Kitty who thinks that is love. Art critic Janeway (note the name) is an effete contrast to Johnny, and possibly a coded gay or bisexual. The apartment manager show's a multi-level unit while walking with a cane. The Greenwich Village street painters are contrasted to Mister Bellarose and his gallery. Millie is a friend of Kitty's who works as a model but "knows the score enough to peg Johnny as a bad apple". Played by Margaret Lindsey formerly of Warner Bros., now at Universal. Though discreetly lesbian, this kept her career from really blossoming as it should have. Costar with Bette Davis in several early films
Always appreciate EG Robinson! I have wondered how he might have portrayed the lead in Marty instead of Borgnine. In regards to both those actors... would love to see Mia react to Ed in Robin & the 7 Hoods and Ernst in Flight of the Pheonix. They are supporting characters in each film.
Dan Duryea was a fantastic Noir actor, who usually played pimps, gangsters and thugs, while, IRL, he was a family man, very wholesome and well thought of by his neighbors.
When I was a kid I remember seeing Duryea in various old films and TV shows so I always associated him with villains and outlaws and so disliked him. But when I got older I began to appreciate him as an actor, and started to look forward to a film when I saw his name in the credits. His best film is probably Ball of Fire with Barbara Stanwyck, but I like seeing him in anything. Most recently I saw him in the original version of Flight of the Phoenix, with Jimmy Stewart...a good film.
@dmytryk7887 Dan Duryea was brought to Hollywood from the Broadway production of THE LITTLE FOXES by Samuel Goldwyn. In BALL OF FIRE his character is named Pastrami ; great name for a gangster thug. His boss in Joe Lilac.
"Next thing you'll be painting women without clothes."
"I never saw a woman without any clothes."
"I should hope not!"
Fun Fact: One of Fritz Lang's personal favorites of his own films.
Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The car Johnny (Dan Duryea) pulls up in is a 1935 Packard Super Eight Sport Phaeton. In 2022 these cars can fetch well into six figures at auction.
The Rest Of The Story Fact: Twelve paintings done for the film by John Decker were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for exhibition in March of 1946. Edward G. Robinson's character talks lovingly about art and says he wishes he owned a Cezanne. In real life, Robinson was a great collector of fine art and was considered an expert.
Product Placement Fact: Although the beer bottles do not have their labels completely visible, enough of a shape is seen to identify them as Schlitz. The brewery was founded in Milwaukee in 1849. The concept of product placement in the movies was still several decades away, so names were intentionally hidden at the time of this film so legal complications would be avoided.
Scarlet Street came out in 1945, not 1947. Just a slight correction.
I hope that you had a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🍽️
Go with God and Be Safe from Evil. 😎 👍
Another Joan Bennett movie you should see is “The Reckless Moment,” with James Mason, directed by Max Ophuls. She plays a mother who will go to any length to protect her child and she gives a sympathetic performance that is 180 degrees from her character in “Scarlet Street.”
“Scarlet Street” is a tragedy, like “Vertigo” is a tragedy, and movie audiences are not usually very receptive to out-and-out tragedies. Give it some time and you might find you appreciate it more.
I think the point is it is sn unsettling ending. Because Chris was still an essentially good person, he couldn't just "move on" after causing the deaths if two people. Even though those two were horrible people. Thats the tragedy! Chris gets away with murder, but does he? 🤷♀️
This is a top 5 level noir for me! Gasped when I saw this was posted. A perfect movie across the board. Pitch black cynical without showing anything grisly. My favorite movie is Chaplin's City Lights and it has a similar plot device of a woman mistakenly believing a poor man to be rich, but where that film thinks the best of all its characters this one takes a similar situation and brings out the monstrousness of all involved. And yet, not one dimensionally. Chris is so good-hearted and it takes a lot of pushing before he debases himself the worst way one can. Kitty herself has the most intriguing moments of questioning their entire plan, but her nature is just twisted enough to go along with and ultimately relish in it unapologetically. Maybe if she didn't have Johnny as a corrupting influence she wouldn't have attempted such a crass, heartless scheme.
Scarlet Street is all about playing with fate like that, how a simple criss cross can bring abject ruin to the lives of any person unlucky enough to be caught in just the wrong circumstances.
Edit: Now that I've seen the whole reaction, no hard feelings that the ending was unsatisfying for you, Mia. I get it, Chris is way too likable for you to want to see him endure this. But I personally feel that's the entire point, kind of similar to Seymour's original ending in Little Shop of Horrors. No person gets a pass for murdering someone, even if you get their reasons and hate the person they're murdering. He *should* have to live with this, Kitty and Johnny being slime doesn't make it right what he did. But of course, we still care about poor Chris. That's the genius of the ending, it leaves you all tangled up inside.
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES !!!
This is SUCH a GOOd, really good movie. Fritz Lang is gold over and over. Billy Wilder is like Fritz Lang's movie making son.
Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennet are a criminally underrated and underappreciated duo. They are great together in this film as well as The Woman in the Window. They should be talked about more imo.
You are going to love Sweet Smell of Success. Clifford Odets wrote the screenplay with a pen dipped in acid. Lancaster and Curtis deliver career-defining performances and James Wong Howe’s cinematography captures Broadway at its seamiest.
Very nice analysis. I do wonder if the fact that Christopher is tortured with guilt was the only way this movie got Code approval. Anyway, I am still amazed by how many other Code rules Lang pushes to the breaking point in this film.
Joan Bennett said they knew the Code would be a problem, so they wrote 2 extra scenes with content that would never pass. Then they had bargaining power as in; 'We'll remove this if we can keep that'. By this time, Lang and Bennett had formed a production company, DIANA PRODUCTIONS as their numerous films as star and director were very successful. It also allowed them to have total control, Universal Studios released their films but had no imput.
Re whether this violated the code, New York state originally banned it as "immoral, indecent, corrupt, and tending to incite crime."
Omg!! I LOVED this movie!! I’m so glad I get to see my favorite creator watch this!! Your videos always brighten my days!! Love you!! 💗💗
Thank you so much! And thank you for watching :)
Wow, thanks Mia! Another great film I’ve never seen.. I loved your reaction/ analysis… esp. the advice to not commit murder. LOL. Seriously, two immediate thoughts come to mind.. 1) Chris was at his happiest and most alive when he was most deluded… that is interesting. 2) I also thought the way the “trial” was handled with just isolated shots of the sequence of witnesses was brilliant. We didn’t need to see or waste time on the trappings of a courtroom, lawyers, etc. It was an elegant way to give us the testimonies compactly, and because we on some level accept this ‘shorthand’. I just loved that. Oh, also your comment about “seeing” the gold watch as gold colored was brilliant… I think that when watching a black and white film, something very interesting happens in our minds. When we absolutely know the color of something, we fill that into our mental picture, skin tones will be filled in as beige or whatever shade of tan/brown, sky will be blue and white, wood will be brown, gold, gold. More ambiguous items will not be assumed, a red or blue or green satin blouse… a gray or blue suit, etc. We must remember that our eyes are sensors that are feeding a story to our mind, but we truly “see” with our mind, not with our eyes.
Thanks again, I really enjoyed this one!
I love this film . I found a CD copy in a one dollar bin in a department store in New Jersey . Joan Bennett was a local New Jersey girl from Fort Lee .
@cojaysea Joan Bennett is currently remembered for starring in the cast of DARK SHADOWS and in Dario Argento's film SUSPIRIA. However, she was part of a famous acting family : Father Richard Bennett was a Broadway star and cofounder of THE BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE in New Hope, PA. See him in IF I HAD A MILLION 1932. Sister Constance Bennett was a leading lady for many years. Sister Barbara was an opera singer and married to Morton Downey. Joan Bennett was born blonde as started her career as a blonde starlet. See her in LITTLE WOMEN 1933. Then in 1938 for the film TRADE WINDS she dyed her hair brunette. It revitalized her career, and involved her in a scandal in which her husband/producer Walter Wanger attempted to shoot her supposed lover. She was a brunette from 1938 onwards.
@ nice info thanks . 🙏
$150 in 1947 is about $2,123 today! The paintings were actually painted by California painter John Decker, who was a known artist at the time - the paintings were exhibited at MoMA in March, 1946. My mother lived in LA in the 1950's; she met Edward G. Robinson a few times, but said he wasn't very nice! She liked Dan Duryea though, and she dated Anthony Perkins (Psycho) for a while... But yeah, this movie broke a lot of the cultural ideals at the time - especially with the first depiction of an execution in the electric chair. I love this movie though, and have a bunch of original memorabilia from it. I'm glad you reacted to this - I was shocked to see someone actually interested in it!
I always watch this movie in a noir double-bill with The Woman in the Window (1944) as they both have the same actors, director and cinematographer.
Among other things.
"This Johnny guy, I don't know why he annoys me", because he is Dan Duryea and he's terrific at being a creepy scoundrel. He co-stars in the classic film noir Too Late For Tears or the excellent western Winchester '73, among over one hundred other roles.
This is an amazing film Mia you look absolutely beautiful I am loving your noir content if you haven’t watched Laura from 1944 I would highly recommend it Mia it’s a great film
Thank you Jacob! I have seen Laura! It’s on the channel!! Check it out when you get a chance!
Sometimes I like to come to adult movie channels... Tired of seeing nice people watching stupid movies. One is always grateful when one reaches the oasis, after wandering through the desert.
Good to see that you are watching this film noir classic and one of Lang's best. Fritz Lang made several attempts to circumvent the production code in this movie with several scenes of violence and sexuality (most of which were prohibited and not allowed to be shown and which have now been destroyed) but he did succeed in becoming the first film to show a murderer not being discovered, prosecuted and executed for his crime (although he is punished by feeling remorse). Another striking scene is the last mile where Johnny who thought he was so tough and such a big man squeals like a rat. Hope you will also watch The Woman in the Window.
"The Woman In The Window", is a good companion film to this one . The same 3 stars, too.
The artist who did the paintings for this movie was John Decker. Very interesting person. You should read about him.
Thank you, Mia, for reviewing Scarlet Street, my favorite noir film. Though it is pretty easy to guess how the film will proceed except near the end, the great performances by Edward G. Robinson and Dan Duryea always keep me intrigued. I felt bad for the major characters even though all 3 were not good people. Chris Cross did have a gentle, sweet personality but turned out to be a cheater, thief, and unaliver plus Kitty and Johnny were rotten so all of them met with bad ends.
Thanks!
Thank you, as always, TC!!
Love Dan Duryea!
That $150 studio apartment would be $2600 adjusted for inflation.
Maybe Chris Cross should go Sailingggg.
? Chris Cross is a hip-hop dude! The rest of us are thinking of a minstrel gigalo named Christopher.
@@fiddiehacked Christopher Cross was often called "Chris Cross" because who could resist?
Very clever. Or he could get caught between the moon and New York City.
If he were hobby painting copying someone else, it's no crime. I'm surprised his wife didn't think he was selling them behind her back, but I guess she'd have to think he'd done something worthwhile for that.
Artist John Decker did Chris's paintings for this film.
Wow!!! You look GREAT!!!!
The implication is that Joan Bennett’s character is a prostitute, but they couldn’t say it directly when this movie was made.
The transparent plastic raincoat was the secret code for a prostitute in 40's/50's films. There are a few films that show this, Dora Bryan in The Fallen Idol 1949 is one example.
Even if it's a movie, it should have some emotional cohesion and realism. If Chris hadn't killed Kitty, maybe things could end differently (or a hundred other steps slightly different).
Always confuse this and _The Woman in the Window._ Great double feature. Joan Bennett is the sister of Constance Bennett _(Topper)._ Joan went on to star in the (eventually) supernatural soap _Dark Shadows._
I like this movie; the plot is obviously similar to The Woman in the Window, but without that movie's terribly unsatisfying ending. I know there are lots of Edward G. Robinson movies I've never seen, but I'm really familiar with him in three kinds of roles: 1. The gangster (Little Caesar, Key Largo, even in a sense The Ten Commandments, with comic variations as in Robin and the 7 Hoods or Never a Dull Moment). 2. The man of integrity in a world of corruption (Double Indemnity, The Stranger, Soylent Green). And 3. The meek "Mr. Milquetoast" character (The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street). Have you seen the comedy The Whole Town's Talking? It's the only movie I know where Robinson has a dual role, as both the Milquetoast and the gangster types, and I think it's a lot of fun.
Mia, I hope you'll consider reviewing the movie Madame X (color/1966), starring Lana Turner. I'm just sure you'd love it!
Great choice. This is so dark.
I wonder how you'd react to The Woman in the Window, which not only has the same cast and director but much the same plot, except for the ending. I find Scarlet Street upsetting in the same way you do, seeing the characters heading toward their bad endings you can see coming. It doesn't seem so much fate or karma as it does bad decisions and bad luck. But Woman in the Window's ending bothers me, too, by cancelling it all out, as if it all meant nothing.
I get being bothered by all that in Scarlet Street, but it's nothing more than what happens with people every day in reality, for the exact same reasons. You have to find fault in actual human behavior to find fault in Scarlet Street. Woman in the Window is definitely similar but I'm not sure it's the same plot. Bennett's character in Woman in the Window is a genuine good woman, for example.
Spoilers if she hasn't seen it! There's some interesting things about shooting the ending, though, I hope she gets in her research.
Mia this came out in 1945 not 47
love noir, bad girls are the best, leave her to heaven is one of my faves but the ending is a bit lame due to the code
johnny is her pimp kitty is a sw
I love Edward G Robinson but I don't like this film. I can't stand to see a good person taken advantage. His wife did, as well as Kitty and Johnny. I feel so bad for him. There was no winner in this film.
@bonitaburroughs8673 The entire overarcing theme of the film is the difference between the outer perception and inner reality. Some are subtle, others are glaringly obvious and some are nods to Universal films and in jokes. Chris's boss is a good kind man, yet he is supporting/dating a brassy blonde or is she really a sweet person? Chris married Adele, who is a nasty fish wife to end all nasty fish wives because she was his landlady who needed comfort when her husband died. The husband is extolled as a hero, but really is a self serving jerk, idolized in absentia like the Una Merkel/Mischa Auer characters in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN. Chris is a bank teller and Sunday painter. Kitty's first outfit is Hollywood code for street walker. Johnny is a smooth talking pimp & would be promoter who abuses Kitty who thinks that is love. Art critic Janeway (note the name) is an effete contrast to Johnny, and possibly a coded gay or bisexual. The apartment manager show's a multi-level unit while walking with a cane. The Greenwich Village street painters are contrasted to Mister Bellarose and his gallery. Millie is a friend of Kitty's who works as a model but "knows the score enough to peg Johnny as a bad apple". Played by Margaret Lindsey formerly of Warner Bros., now at Universal. Though discreetly lesbian, this kept her career from really blossoming as it should have. Costar with Bette Davis in several early films
I absolutely loathe this film. It’s one of the most upsetting movies I’ve ever seen.
I never finished this film because I had the same feeling. I made it maybe 45 minutes in
Always appreciate EG Robinson! I have wondered how he might have portrayed the lead in Marty instead of Borgnine.
In regards to both those actors... would love to see Mia react to Ed in Robin & the 7 Hoods and Ernst in Flight of the Pheonix. They are supporting characters in each film.