Scarlet Street (1945)

Director Fritz Lang re-teamed the leads from his 1945 hit ‘Women in the Window’ for this superior noir. Lang pushes the envelop much further in this film, giving us an ending that’s as far away from the previous movies arguable cop-out resolution as possible. The characters here are less redeemable too, with Joan Bennet playing the consument spoiled femme fatal “lazy legs”, and Edward G. Robinson a pathetic failure of a man, undone by lack of courage. Provocative for its time it can more then hold a modern audience. I’ve got to netflix me more Lang.