Editing Scarlet Street (section)

==Production==
[[File:Scarlet Street (1945) by Fritz Lang.webm | thumb | thumbtime=28 | upright=1.5 | ''Scarlet Street'']]
''Scarlet Street'' reunited director Fritz Lang with actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, who had worked with him in ''[[The Woman in the Window (1944 film)|The Woman in the Window]]'' (1944). The film was based on the French novel ''La Chienne'' (literally ''The Bitch'') by [[Georges de La Fouchardière]], which had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as ''[[La Chienne]]'' (1931) by director [[Jean Renoir]]. Lang's film ''[[Human Desire]]'' (1954) was based on another Renoir film, ''[[La Bête humaine (film)|La Bête humaine]]'' (1938), which was based on [[Émile Zola]]'s novel on the same name. Renoir was said to have disliked both of Lang's films.

''Scarlet Street'' is similar to ''The Woman in the Window'' in its themes, cast, crew and characters. Robinson again plays a lonely middle-aged man, and Bennett and Duryea once more play the criminal couple. Both films were photographed by [[Milton R. Krasner]]. [[Walter Wanger]], who produced the film, had earlier produced Lang's 1937 film ''[[You Only Live Once (1937 film)|You Only Live Once]]''.

Though ''Scarlet Street'' is considered a [[film noir]] classic, along with Lang's earlier film ''The Woman in the Window'', Robinson, who noticed the thematic similarities between the two, found the production of ''Scarlet Street'' monotonous and was eager to finish it and move on to other projects. Robinson had also disliked making ''The Woman in the Window''.
 
Twelve paintings created for the film by [[John Decker (artist)|John Decker]] were sent to the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City for exhibition in March 1946.