Scarlet Street

Christopher Cross is a meek cashier at a clothing store, unhappily married and spending his spare time painting. One rainy night he rescues a young woman, Kitty March, from a man roughing her up, and falls for her almost at once. Kitty and her boyfriend Johnny Prince, a small-time crook, learn that a dealer has shown interest in Cross's canvases. They let her pass the paintings off as her own, and Cross goes along with the deception because of how he feels about her.

Fritz Lang directed and produced, working from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols. The film came fifteenth in the twenty-four features Lang directed, following The Woman in the Window and preceding Cloak and Dagger. Edward G. Robinson plays Cross, with Joan Bennett as Kitty and Dan Duryea as Johnny; Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker and Rosalind Ivan appear among the credited cast of fifty-nine. Universal Pictures released the crime drama, made for about a million dollars, which returned roughly three million worldwide.

On IMDb it holds 7.7 out of 10 across 21,000 votes, while TMDB shows 7.6 from 459. A critics' rating of 8.1 from 17 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.