What an interesting film Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street turns out to be after it starts off a kind of farce, with Edward G Robinson playing unhappily married Christopher Cross, a patsy beguiled and manipulated into financing the lifestyle of hs mistress, Joan Bennett's femme fatale Kitty March, but towards the end, things turn psychologically dark, there's a murder, and then the movie ends with unmistakeable references to the director's The Woman In the Window, the less capitivating film noir he released a year earlier with all the same actors, many of the same plot details, but one that you must watch in conjunction with Scarlet Street to appreciate the lighthearted apology being made.
★★★☆☆
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