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Title: FINALLY, A BEAUTIFULLY MASTERED PRINT OF A CLASSIC NOIR
Review: Having Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street in even a reasonably clean remastered DVD print once seemed like a pure dream, and living with a couple of acceptable prints was all that noir/Lang/Eddie G. fans could expect. Now, Kino Video has found the right elements to make what seems to me the best print we'll ever have of this great film. In remaking Jean Renoir's La Chienne (which also needs remastering for a DVD release), Lang had to deal with Production Code rules in the mid-1940s that forced him to make unwanted cuts in several scenes and change the ending for the censors. So viewing La Chienne will help to put the "real" story in its proper perspective. Beyond these comments, I don't want to be the "spoiler" for you. Just buy the DVD now, support Kino's further restorations, and watch it innumerable times.
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