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1945
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay concerns two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork. The film is based on the French novel La Chienne by Georges de La Fouchardière, which had been previously dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.
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In the last few decades, Hollywood producers have very often used critically and commercially successful films from France for their own remakes. For many critics, such practice was a sign that American cinema, at least the segment associated with big studios, was beginning to lack the last sparks of originality. However, remaking French films isn’t such a new phenomenon in Hollywood. It happened even half a century…More
