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Title: Lang's second best American film.
Review: Scarlet Street twists and turns all over the place and is a superb story about evil cons and their unknowing dupe. It has a lot of poignancy about the self-imposed prison that people situate themselves in, how unscrupulous people can prey on the weak and insecure. It is a thoroughly pitch-black film noir about the depths of humanity.I have to knock of one star though for a couple of reasons. First, the film sacrifices a modicum of reality for yet another plot twist, and Robinson's gullibility is just a little too played out; it gets redundant. Dan Duryea is not particularly good in his role either; too affected. And the ending was a bit trite.For me, Fury is the best film Lang made in Hollywood, for the clarity of its incredibly harsh message and its riveting drama. Scarlet Street is a wicked little film but doesn't quite scale the same teutonic heights.
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