In the film, she is portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren and is depicted as a sassy Washington DC madame who runs an underground brothel. In the first of three endings, or Ending A, she orders Mr. Boddy's maid Yvette to murder her employer and the cook before murdering her in turn along with a cop she was bribing and a passing motorist and singing telegram girl. Scarlet is eventually exposed, subdued, and arrested. In the third ending, or Ending C, she only murders the cop before being exposed and arrested.