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Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
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This wonderful 40's thriller sees Wilder at his best. The plot may be complex on the surface, but it can be stripped away to reveal a dark simplicity. MacMurray captures the right amount of morbid naivety, to reflect a manipulated man, but one that was always capable of killing. ...( read more)
Not all monsters are grotesque and ugly, sometimes they are as beautiful and breathtaking as Barbara Stanwyck. Considered by many to be the best and most influential film noir ever made, Double Indemnity has become the standard by which all others are judged. For my money,...( read more)
When dictionaries are replaced by upload your own video websites, look up anti-hero and this film will play. A true classic, simplistic by today's standards but a good old-fashioned nail-biter of a film from Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity was years ahead of its time. Great acting...( read more)
Fast talking insurance salesman Fred MacMurray falls for beautiful but ice cold oil tycoon's wife Barbara Stanwyck and together they hatch a scheme to kill off her husband for the insurance money. Using the classic technique of beginning at the end, the entire story is narrated b...( read more)
A lecherous insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) allows himself to be seduced by a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) who wants her rich husband out of the way. All the classic film noir elements--light and shadow, a femme fatale, a complex but doomed scheme--appear here in their purest form.
A marvellous bit of film noir history in which Barbara Stanwyck is the femme fatale who lures poor Fred Macmurray into a plot to murder her husband.
A sparkling script is packed with quick fire snappy dialogue from Raymond Chandler. Very moody cinematography packed with shadowy ...( read more)
Clever, dark, suspensful and over flowing with twists and turns, Double Indemnity is the archtypal Noir film. A Femme Fatal, (possibly the most famous in history, played with menace and sophistication that so easily defeats the conscience of an average Joe who roped into a deviou...( read more)
"The Black Widow played by Stanwyck is an archetypal construction. Evidentally, Wilder deeply apprectiated the ambivalence of Cain"s novel and followed the narrative closely. While respecting Chandler's contributions, Wilder used the noir structure to color and restrict the roman...( read more)
