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Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this epitome of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff ...
In many ways, Woody Allen's quote encompasses all the main elements that make Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (Paramount Pictures, USA, 1944) a masterpiece...
Movies don't get much better than Double Indemnity (1944). Universal Home Entertainment's new "Legacy Series" DVD release does the movie proud, offering a 2-disc edition of Billy Wilder's classic film noir that boasts an outstanding transfer of the picture itself, two audio commentaries, an introduction by TCM's own Robert Osborne, a documentary on the film's making, a trailer, and even a long ...
May 31, 2022 · Double Indemnity may not immediately seem like the type of film that has much to say about race. But the filmic language of Hollywood cinema is deeply interwoven with the racial attitudes of the culture it sought or seeks to entertain.
