Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
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Plot Summary
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this gripping film noir from Academy Award®-winning director Billy Wilder. A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager (Edward G. Robinson). It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in this heart-racing Academy Award®-nominated masterpiece.
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TOMATOMETER
98%- Reviews Counted: 45
- Fresh: 44
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 8.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: MacMurray has seldom given a better performance. It is somewhat different from his usually light roles, but is always plausible and played with considerable restraint.
Fresh: The film is a brilliant collision of evil and the mundane, and one of the reasons viewers respond to it so well is that it makes the mundane seem a little sexier in the resulting debris.
Fresh: Few other directors have made so many films that were so taut, savvy, cynical and, in many different ways and tones, funny.
Fresh: Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
Customer Reviews
SUSPENSE!
LITERALLY SUSPENSE,perhaps one of the most suspensful i have seen. this movie is SO entertaining from start to finish,i LOVED it. the best part is the part on the train. watch this movie it is VERY VERY good
solid, not great
Solid noir film, but I just didn't like the casting. Bogart and and any number of leading ladies of the time would have made this one phenomenal. MacMurray just wasn't believable, at least to me.
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- Genre: Thriller
- Released: 1944
- © 1944 Paramount Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
