Scarlet Street
Why this pick
Lang again builds a claustrophobic noir nightmare around an ordinary man fatally drawn to a manipulative woman, with mounting guilt and cruel fatalism.
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Why this pick
Lang again builds a claustrophobic noir nightmare around an ordinary man fatally drawn to a manipulative woman, with mounting guilt and cruel fatalism.
Why this pick
Its polished, shadowy noir world turns buried guilt, sexual power and blackmail into a steadily tightening moral trap.
Why this pick
A hard-edged false-accusation noir with treacherous relationships, urban menace and a protagonist boxed in by circumstantial pressure.
Why this pick
A woman’s dream of security curdles into psychological imprisonment in this sleek, unsettling noir of coercion, manipulation and mounting dread.
Why this pick
Identity, guilt and a perilous attempt to escape the past give this melodramatic noir the same dreamlike sense that one bad decision cannot be undone.
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01 / THE STORY
A conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Inspector Jackson
Professor Richard Wanley
Alice Reed
Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Mrs. Wanley