Double Indemnity (1944)
1944 · Feature film · 107 min · dir. Billy Wilder
It's love and murder at first sight!
- Crime
- Thriller
Synopsis
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Cinematography
- John F. Seitz
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1944-07-06
- Running time
- 107 minutes
Cast & crew
Billy Wilder Director
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Porter Hall
Jean Heather
Tom Powers
Byron Barr
Richard Gaines
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Double Indemnity On Film · Gissinglover · 2022-10-09
James G. Cain wrote three novels that were adapted into classic films: "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Double Indemnity" and "Mildred Pierce". I have enjoyed reading these books and watching the films in what has become a lengthy passion for American noir. The second of the Cain novels, "Double Indemnity" was published in book form in 1943 after it ran as a magazine serial seven years earlier. It was the first of Cain's novels that Hollywood adopted into a film, and it is often regarded as the film which inaugurated the difficult to define genre of film noir. It is a great, celebrated…
★★★★★ · Guy Next Door · aedwy57 · 2023-05-04
"Double Indemnity" is one of the very best noir films, and one of my favorites. I read an interesting comment made by a reviewer that Fred MacMurray's character was just an ordinary guy, an Everyman, who got in way over his head with lust and greed, and that's what made the character work. I'm inclined to agree with that observation. I also really love the relationship btwn MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson's character, it's like a bromance or father/son relationship. It adds complexity to those characters.
