Double Indemnity (1944)

Director: Billy Wilder  Starring: Barbara Stanwyck  Fred MacMurray  Edward G. Robinson  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Universal
Format: DVD
UPC: 00025192009525
Buy.com Sku: 40243080
Item#: VW3FCR
Category Keywords: Betrayal  Classic  Essential Cinema  Film Noir  Infidelity  Melodrama  Murder  Psychodrama  Recommended  Romance  Suspense  Theatrical Release  Thriller 
Rating: NR
 
 
Features: DVD
 


Editor's Note

Billy Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) during a routine renewal of her husband's car insurance. After some flirtation she arranges a meeting without her husband, where she asks about an accident policy to be bought without her husband's knowledge. Although repulsed by the implications of her suggestions, his obsession with Phyllis leads Neff to contemplate the possibility of finding a way to kill her husband while making his death look like an accident. After she comes to his apartment, the insurance salesman finally agrees to become involved in the murder, and the two of them begin methodically working out the details. After they dispose of Dietrichson, Neff learns more than he wanted about Phyllis' unsavory past, but realizes he's now too involved to extricate himself. He's also concerned about his a boss, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), an omniscient insurance investigator who has taken over the case. DOUBLE INDEMNITY is brilliant noir, among the best of the genre, with a byzantine yet utterly plausible plot, stylized hard-boiled dialogue by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and three terrific performances by Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson.

 
Features
Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33

 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Universal
Release Date: 8/3/2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Original Release Date: 1944
Catalog ID: 20095
UPC: 00025192009525
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: B&W

 
Cast & Crew
Barbara Stanwyck
Fortunio Bonanova
Jean Heather
Porter Hall
Fred MacMurray
Edward G. Robinson
Tom Powers
Byron Barr
Richard Gaines
Billy Wilder - Screenwriter
John Seitz - Director of Photography
Doane Harrison - Editor
Hans Dreier - Production Designer
Raymond Chandler - Screenwriter
Cesar Franck - Composer
Joseph Sistrom - Producer
James M. Cain - Source Writer
Hal Pereira - Production Designer
Miklos Rozsa - Composer
Billy Wilder - Director

 
Professional Reviews
USA Today
"...INDEMNITY has all the classic elements..." 01/26/1994 p.5D

Premiere
"The noir formula takes a giant step forward: a domineering femme fatale; a dark, Expressionist visual style; and a violent, unhappy ending..." 12/01/2003 p.5

Sight and Sound
"[O]ne of the most memorable thrillers in Hollywood history." 06/01/2005 p.82

Uncut
"Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis was the greatest of the hardboiled noir temptresses." 08/01/2005 p.134

Uncut
Ranked #3 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "The ultimate sex-greed-death classic." 01/01/2006 p.84-85

Entertainment Weekly
"Stanwyck cracks wise...while dripping pheromones." -- Grade: A 09/01/2006 p.57

New York Times
"DOUBLE INDEMNITY belongs to the early stages of American film noir....[With] a gallery of great character actors..." 08/22/2006 p.E6

Rolling Stone
"Film noir doesn't get more classic than Billy Wilder's 1944 tale of greed and lust." 11/30/2006 p.100

  
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