event Scarlet Street
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Mon Feb 6
7:30 pm
Scarlet Street at Heights Theater
Coming to Hollywood after having a major role in defining German Expressionism, Fritz Lang (Metropolis) knew how to distill a character’s interior life into a single shot. That shot comes early in Lang’s 1945 noir Scarlet Street, which stars Edward G. Robinson as a hen-pecked husband and go-nowhere company man who leaves a party at his boss' mansion and walks through a trash-strewn city until he spies pimp Dan Duryea beating up one of his girls, Joan Bennett. Robinson intervenes and knocks Duryea flat, and Lang dwells for a moment on the look of unexpected pleasure on Robinson's face. That look says everything about Robinson's meekness and capacity for violence, and it explains his involvement in an embezzlement scheme that eventually brings him down.
Heights Theater 3951 Central Ave. N.E., Twin Cities, MN
Coming to Hollywood after having a major role in defining German Expressionism, Fritz Lang (Metropolis) knew how to distill a character’s interior life into a single shot. That shot comes early in Lang’s 1945 noir Scarlet Street, which stars Edward G. Robinson as a hen-pecked husband and go-nowhere company man who leaves a party at his boss' mansion and walks through a trash-strewn city until he spies pimp Dan Duryea beating up one of his girls, Joan Bennett. Robinson intervenes and knocks Duryea flat, and Lang dwells for a moment on the look of unexpected pleasure on Robinson's face. That look says everything about Robinson's meekness and capacity for violence, and it explains his involvement in an embezzlement scheme that eventually brings him down.
Updated 01/26/2012
