6. Double Indemnity (1944)Director - Billy Wilder
Writers - Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler
Date of Viewing: 01/04/07
First Viewing: Yes
A salient example of classic film noir at its best, Double Indemnity is the first truly great film I've viewed as part of this project. The always amazing Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd., Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) wows me yet again with a brilliant example of the power of classic Hollywood. Fred MacMurray, playing wonderfully against type, shines as a corrupted insurance salesman led astray by intoxicating femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck and caught by an excellently irascible Edward G. Robinson.
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