Para pemeran utama Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett dan Dan Duryea sebelumnya tampil bersama dalam The Woman in the Window (1944), yang juga disutradarai oleh Fritz Lang. Otoritas lokal di tiga kota (New York, Milwaukee, dan Atlanta) mencekal Scarlet Street pada awal 1946 karena alur dan tema gelapnya.[6]
^Karney, Robin. "Scarlet Street". www.radiotimes.com. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2019-04-14. Diakses tanggal 14 April 2019. The script, unfortunately, tends to run out of control and strain credibility, but there are shades of the pathetic professor, ruined by unsuitable passion in The Blue Angel, in the tragedy that befalls Robinson.
^"Scarlet Street". www.siff.net. 24 July 2016. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2019-04-14. Diakses tanggal 14 April 2019. In this noir classic, milquetoast cashier Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) becomes an accidental hero when he rescues young Kitty March (Joan Bennett), from a would-be attacker. The sap doesn’t realize he’s stumbled upon a dust-up between a hooker and her pimp (Dan Duryea) and before long the devious duo is playing him for a prize chump. It can only end in tragedy.
