Directed by Fritz Lang • 1945 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
A box-office hit (despite being banned in three states), SCARLET STREET is one of legendary director Fritz Lang’s finest American films. When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain-slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back-lot Greenwich Village, he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. As Chris’s obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated, and transformed into an avenging monster, before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfyingly downbeat denouement in the history of American film. Packed with hairpin plot twists, SCARLET STREET is a dark gem of film noir.
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1932 • United States
Starring Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Director Raoul Walsh brings his characteristic punch to this raucous pre-Code western-comedy-romance starring Joan Bennett as Salomy Jane, the titular free-spirited child of the California mounta...
Directed by Jean Renoir • 1947 • United States
Starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Filled with primal lust, bold imagery, and murderous hearts, Jean Renoir’s fifth American film (heavily recut by the studio prior to its release) is the renowned French director’s fever dream of a...
Directed by George Cukor • 1933 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
As four sisters grow from girls to young adults in New England during the hard years of the Civil War, the difficulties, tragedies and joys they experience tear at—but cannot break—their deep ...
