... you can learn from:
Scarlet Street (1945)
Kitty: You wouldn't know love if it hit you in the face.
Millie: If that's where it hits you, you ought to know!
The great Fritz Lang was born on this day in 1890.
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Kitty: You wouldn't know love if it hit you in the face.
Millie: If that's where it hits you, you ought to know!
A great film masterfully directed and acted and with one of the queens of Langian interpretation-Joan Bennett-at the very top of her game.
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