LACONIA—Join Lakes Region Public Access Television at 10:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday night, Sept. 22 and 23, for our “LRPA After Dark” presentation of 1945’s dark melodrama “Scarlet Street,” starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. “Scarlet Street” is a particularly bleak entry in the film noir genre, and holds the distinction of being one of the first Hollywood films to feature a criminal who is not punished for his crime. According to TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, “Scarlet Street” was considered so debauched that, upon first release, it was banned in Milwaukee, Atlanta and throughout New York. While “Scarlet Street” may have shocked critics in its day, it has won many over in the decades since. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated “Scarlet Street” for its Top Ten Gangster Films list.

Source: Daily Sun September 20, 2017 07:52 UTC