
SCREENING
Scarlet Street
Friday, Feb 28 at 3:00 pm
Saturday, Mar 1 at 2:15 p.m.
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of Snubbed Forever
Snubbed Forever: Edward G. Robinson & Joan Bennett
Dir. Fritz Lang. 1945, 102 mins. U.S. 35mm archival print from the Library of Congress. With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosiland Ivan. Even amidst the darkness of the burgeoning, as-yet-unnamed film noir movement in American cinema, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a jolt of pure fatalism. Robinson gives a career-best lead performance as a browbeaten, retired Greenwich Village cashier and amateur painter who falls into a trap set by a shady local girl who dangles the hope of a romantic affair in front of him, all the while swindling him out of cash. Giving performances unsparing in their pitifulness and malignancy, respectively, Robinson and Bennett guide viewers through the jaw-dropping, labyrinthine plot all the way to a haunting ending that contributed to the film being banned in a number of cities across the U.S.
Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.