Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to In The Balcony. We hope you enjoy your visit.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Plus, you'll be eligible for the monthly $1 million prize. (Not really.)

Join our community!

If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Scarlet Street; Edward G Robinson is too soft
Topic Started: Jun 1 2011, 04:19 PM (220 Views)
AndyFish
Member Avatar
Movie Watcha Foist Class
[ *  *  * ]
Henpecked wanna be famous artist Edward G Robinson is living with an old battle axe who he should have shoved down the stairs ala KISS OF DEATH a long time ago-- but sadly it's not that kind of Noir, it's the kind that is a little bit ridiculous but it's got a good enough cast and the new print from KINO is nice enough to make this a taught little thriller.

Robinson becomes enamored of a young woman with some slightly loose morals whose running around with a grifter played by a guy I've seen doing the same role in at least two other movies. She takes advantage of Robinson's nice guy type-- and he's clearly TOO nice, and fleeces him out of an apartment in Greenwich Village back in the day when artists could actually afford to live there.

The slimy guy gets antsy when the loose girl starts to lessen the squeeze on Robinson's pocketbook and decides to see if the paintings Robinson has been doing are worth any money.

Eventually he works out a swindle where the girl gets credit for Robbie's paintings (they keep calling them 'pictures' which, as an artist myself, annoys the hell out of me. 'Pictures' are photographs) and soon they're for sale in the top gallery in the city.

It all loops back around and pretty much everybody gets what's coming to them.

Interesting to see that this was filmed around the same time that Robbie was playing Walter Neff's insurance investigator pal in DOUBLE INDEMNITY around the same time, because the characters are polar opposites. I think the DI Robbie would have smacked around the SS Robbie.

A very good movie, even if it stretches credibility a bit.
www.andytfish.com
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
« Previous Topic · The Dark Aisle · Next Topic »
Add Reply