This is a remake to Jean Renoir film , titled ¨La chienne¨ and concerns a good , middle-aged cashier (Edward G Robinson) suddenly meets a beautiful woman (Joan Bennett) when is scolding with her fiancé (Dan Duryea). Then , the couple schemes embezzle to the mild-manner , kind clerk . Jealousy , ambition and greed create a spiral of hate , killing and vengeance.
The film is a classic Noir Film , packing awesome scenes with an interesting script plenty of surprises and plot twists . The movie gets usual Lang characters , an average man is caught into a twisted cobweb , being involved in seedy nightmares of his own making and a tremendously imaginative journey into the depths of human desperation . The mild-mannered Edward G Robinson is extraordinary as a meek cashier snared by a femme fatal magnificently performed by Joan Bennett as a manipulating , predatory beauty woman . Nasty Dan Dureya with a straw-hatted completes the exceptional trio , playing perfectly an astute crook . It contains an atmospheric cinematography with dark and shades in black and white -although also available colorized- by cameraman Milton Krasner who along with John Alton and Nicholas Musuruka are the fundamental creators of the special atmosphere of noir cinema . Hans J. Salter composed the score musical finely fitting to the sensation of menace and suggestion . Fritz Lang made another great crime drama , also with a brightly portrait of the low life , titled ¨the woman in the window¨ with equal threesome players .
Fritz Lang was an excellent German director , in 1920, he began a relationship with actress and writer Thea von Harbou (1889-1954) , who wrote with him the scripts for his most celebrated films: Doctor Mabuse (1922), The nibelungs (1924) , Metrópolis (1927) and M (1931) . Subsequently , with the Nazism Lang exiled in the United States where he directed a lot of classic movies as Fury , You only live once , The return of Frank James , Western Union , Man hunt , Notorious ranch , Human desires , The big heat , Moonfleet , among others . Rating : Sensational , a real masterpiece by the genius Fritz Lang .
The film is a classic Noir Film , packing awesome scenes with an interesting script plenty of surprises and plot twists . The movie gets usual Lang characters , an average man is caught into a twisted cobweb , being involved in seedy nightmares of his own making and a tremendously imaginative journey into the depths of human desperation . The mild-mannered Edward G Robinson is extraordinary as a meek cashier snared by a femme fatal magnificently performed by Joan Bennett as a manipulating , predatory beauty woman . Nasty Dan Dureya with a straw-hatted completes the exceptional trio , playing perfectly an astute crook . It contains an atmospheric cinematography with dark and shades in black and white -although also available colorized- by cameraman Milton Krasner who along with John Alton and Nicholas Musuruka are the fundamental creators of the special atmosphere of noir cinema . Hans J. Salter composed the score musical finely fitting to the sensation of menace and suggestion . Fritz Lang made another great crime drama , also with a brightly portrait of the low life , titled ¨the woman in the window¨ with equal threesome players .
Fritz Lang was an excellent German director , in 1920, he began a relationship with actress and writer Thea von Harbou (1889-1954) , who wrote with him the scripts for his most celebrated films: Doctor Mabuse (1922), The nibelungs (1924) , Metrópolis (1927) and M (1931) . Subsequently , with the Nazism Lang exiled in the United States where he directed a lot of classic movies as Fury , You only live once , The return of Frank James , Western Union , Man hunt , Notorious ranch , Human desires , The big heat , Moonfleet , among others . Rating : Sensational , a real masterpiece by the genius Fritz Lang .