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Double Indemnity

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8.1/10 • 1.9K

1944-07-061h 47m

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It's love and murder at first sight!

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Directors
Billy Wilder
Editors
Doane Harrison

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  1. Fred MacMurray

    Fred MacMurray

    Walter Neff

  2. Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck

    Phyllis Dietrichson

  3. Edward G. Robinson

    Edward G. Robinson

    Barton Keyes

  4. Porter Hall

    Porter Hall

    Mr. Jackson

  5. Jean Heather

    Jean Heather

    Lola Dietrichson

  6. Tom Powers

    Tom Powers

    Mr. Dietrichson

  7. Byron Barr

    Byron Barr

    Nino Zachetti

  8. Richard Gaines

    Richard Gaines

    Edward S. Norton Jr.

  9. Fortunio Bonanova

    Fortunio Bonanova

    Sam Garlopis

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talisencrw

Sep 22, 2016

10/10

It's definitely hard to pin down a personal favourite Wilder film, though I tend towards his earlier masterworks such as 'The Lost Weekend', 'Sunset Boulevard'...and THIS. He was one of the finest at getting straight through the bullshit and to the heart of all things noir (as the immortal Jean-Luc Godard stated, 'All I need to make a film is a man, a girl and a gun'). Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favourite actresses of the period, and is a classic 'femme fatale'. I've never been a huge fan of Fred MacMurray, but his 'nice guy' persona is used to sheer advantage by Wilder, and he end up both doing his finest work for Wilder (here and in 'The Apartment') and being the ultimate noir male protagonist. Interestingly, one of my favourite actors, Edward G. Robinson, thought so much of the script that he opted out of his demand of never doing a supporting role. Many people admire Wilder the director, but as a writer (or co-writer) he's just as cinematically important and influential. Like any other film of his, at least that I've had the pleasure to see, it's worth a purchase and re-watches. The dialogue, especially, is simply fantastic. I'd take just one of his early works over a hundred of the films Hollywood churns out nowadays. They're simply that better and intrinsically satisfying. Immortal cinema.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$927,262.00
Revenue
$2,500,000.00
Keywords
insurance fraudfemme fatalefilm noirmurderlife insuranceblack and whiteinsurance agentinsurance policyduplicitymurder plotscheming wife