FILM 1642: SCARLET STREET
TRIVIA: Twelve paintings done for
the film by John Decker were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York
City for exhibition in March of 1946.
One of Fritz Lang's
personal favorites of his own films.
The failure of the original
copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into
public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD
copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the
market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor
quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of
the film.
According to Ben Mankiewicz on TCM,
when first released, local censor boards in New York, Milwalkee and Atlanta
banned this film entirely, for being "licentious, profane, obscure, and
contrary to the good order of the community".
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