Double Indemnity
1944 | Noir | USA | Directed by Billy Wilder
Overview
Barbara Stanwyck anklet launches the definitive noir: an insurance salesman, a bored wife, a perfect murder policy. Raymond Chandler co wrote the script with Wilder, dialogue like barbed wire. Edward G. Robinson reads the actuarial omens. Fate closes in through venetian blinds and shadow. The film where noir understood that the crime never matters and the guilt always does.
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