Double Indemnity
From the moment they met it was murder!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 28, 2012
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck & Edward G. Robinson | |
Performer: | Porter Hall, Tom Powers, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines & Fortunio Bonanova | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Doane Harrison | |
Screenwriting by | Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Produced by | Joseph Sistrom | |
Director of Photography: | John F. Seitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
If you like your dialogue hardboiled, your lighting shadowy, and your femmes fatales preposterously evil, then look no further: Billy Wilder's 1944 adaptation of James M Cain's insurance-scam novella.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/4 --
Filmmaker Billy Wilder has infused Double Indemnity with an agreeably hard-boiled vibe that's reflected in everything from the performances to the visuals to the dialogue...
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Reel Film Reviews
This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films.
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New Yorker
The noir formula takes a giant step forward: a domineering femme fatale; a dark, Expressionist visual style; and a violent, unhappy ending...
Premiere
Variations and tributes can't blunt the sting of Wilder's acidic noir benchmark
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CinePassion
One has to go clear back to The Human Comedy, Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane to find comparable pace-setters.
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Los Angeles Times
This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-'40s shopper's catalogue for noiristes ...
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Village Voice
Product Description:
Billy Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) during a routine renewal of her husband's car insurance. After some flirtation she arranges a meeting without her husband, where she asks about an accident policy to be bought without her husband's knowledge. Although repulsed by the implications of her suggestions, his obsession with Phyllis leads Neff to contemplate the possibility of finding a way to kill her husband while making his death look like an accident. After she comes to his apartment, the insurance salesman finally agrees to become involved in the murder, and the two of them begin methodically working out the details. After they dispose of Dietrichson, Neff learns more than he wanted about Phyllis' unsavory past, but realizes he's now too involved to extricate himself. He's also concerned about his a boss, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), an omniscient insurance investigator who has taken over the case. DOUBLE INDEMNITY is brilliant noir, among the best of the genre, with a byzantine yet utterly plausible plot, stylized hard-boiled dialogue by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and three terrific performances by Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson.
Keywords:
Classic
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Psychodrama
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Romance
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Melodrama
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Infidelity
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Essential Cinema
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