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Which Fritz Lang films starred Joan Bennett and Edward G. Robinson?
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Fritz Lang
Although it took Fritz Lang some 21 years to make 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace. His time in Hollywood, which began in 1934, followed a directing career in Germany during the 1920s that included several landmark films.
The director Fritz Lang directed two notable film noir productions during the 1940s that starred both Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett:
- The Woman in the Window (1944): A drama in which Robinson plays a college professor who becomes entangled with a woman (Bennett) depicted in a painting.1
- Scarlet Street (1945): A remake of Jean Renoirâs La Chienne, featuring Robinson as a cashier who falls for a woman (Bennett) who exploits him alongside a con man.1