Double Indemnity (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 31, 2022
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray & Edward G. Robinson | |
Performer: | Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova, Richard Gaines, Jean Heather, Tom Powers & Byron Barr | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Doane Harrison | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler | |
Composition by | Cesar Franck & Miklos Rozsa | |
Produced by | Joseph Sistrom |
Entertainment Reviews:
97%
TOMATOMETER
Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis was the greatest of the hardboiled noir temptresses.
Uncut
...INDEMNITY has all the classic elements...
USA Today
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts seamless pressure-cooker construction -- Wilder considered it his greatest film -- allows the temperature to ratchet slowly to boiling point.
Total Film
Stanwyck cracks wise...while dripping pheromones. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #3 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- The ultimate sex-greed-death classic.
Uncut
DOUBLE INDEMNITY belongs to the early stages of American film noir....[With] a gallery of great character actors...
New York Times
The noir formula takes a giant step forward: a domineering femme fatale; a dark, Expressionist visual style; and a violent, unhappy ending...
Premiere
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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Suspense
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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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Recommended
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Melodrama
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Infidelity
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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