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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Billy Wilder, Jack Smight |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 06 September, 1944 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Atmospheric, B&W, Bleak, Cons and Scams, Crime, Crime Drama, Crime Thriller, Cynical, Dangerous Attraction, Downbeat, English, Extramarital Affairs, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Femmes Fatales, Film Noir, High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D29078D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 025192907821 |
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>In general the story is very well-designed.
Double Indemnity
One of the quintessential noir films, Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" is a masterpiece of stark atmosphere and carefully stylized suspense. The talented Barbara Stanwyck, a familiar face in the 1940s noir universe, assumes her role with feline deviousness, while "My Three Sons" TV dad Fred MacMurray--narrating the film via flashback--brilliantly plays against type. Raymond Chandler's screenplay sizzles with hard-boiled repartee and the great Edward G. Robinson is aces as always as the dogged investigator hot on the lovers' trail. Sinister, tense, and cynical, Wilder's "Indemnity" is riveting film suspense.
Classic film noir from the great Billy Wilder
"Double Indemnity" is one of the first films of the genre that would come to be known as "Film Noir".
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>The plot is classic film noir - a smug, womanising insurance salesman Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray) gets in over his head with a conniving femme fatale Phyllis Diedrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) who wants rid of her boorish husband. Neff must also be wary of a suspicious claims manager at his insurance company Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson).
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>Naturally the story has some dated elements (it was made in 1943) but it still holds up pretty well as entertainment for a modern audience.
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>MacMurray is excellent in his role as a heel making a change from his usual nice guy roles. He helps make the character sympathetic whereas Stanwycks role has few redeeming features - she really is "rotten". Her turnabout at the end is also somewhat unconvincing. The great Edward G. Robinson steals every scene he's in as the tenacious investigator who has a soft spot for Neff.
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>The DVD includes a good commentary by Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman with useful insights on the film but it also continually laments the decline of Hollywood, which I think is a trifle unfair.
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>Like most Billy Wilder films "Double Indemnity" doesn't really have a message - it just provides great entertainment aimed at adults. It also marks a growing shift in the 1940s towards more maturity in Hollywood film-making.