Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity
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A great Billy Wilder film in which "every turn and twist is exactly calculated and achieves its effect with the simplest of means; this shrewd, smooth, tawdry thriller is one of the high points of 40s films" (Pauline Kael). Raymond Chandler collaborated on the screenplay in adapting James Cain's story. Barbara Stanwyck is the platinum blonde, Fred MacMurray the insurance salesman she ensnares in a plot to kill her businessman-husband and collect on the double-indemnity clause in his policy. Billy Wilder---USA---1944---107 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

I gather that some members of the creative team were at each other's throats when this film was made, but somehow they managed to produce an almost perfect movie.

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   | Bill#10

With Double Indemnity, you get the "stars" and the new emerging American socioogy of life and filmmaking, a psychological realism combined with older and newer approaches to cinematic projection to present a new overall reality. Wilder's film has stood the test of time, even for such a tawdry plot. The novel by James M. Cain's first person fiction narration is crisp, reads fast, is highly adaptable, and is representative of a genre within the medium that is not easy to duplicate due to a coveted status in the history of the medium. Individual "noirs" in the predominantly white world of these films start challenging the audience with introduction of characters particularly situated in settings struggling either with a lack of confidence about existential standstills in mid-career; cynical, yielding and therefore exploitative; or they are in a deeply disquieted mood, all driven by desire to know what is truth, willing to play a game using the lingua franca, to trade all possessions to gain a status of sustainability.

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