Scarlet Street
The things she does to men can end only one way - in murder!
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March.Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook.When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings.
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
33 billed performers
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Movie DNA
How Scarlet Street actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Scarlet Street returned 2.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 1945
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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