An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
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July 14, 2015
Variations and tributes can't blunt the sting of Wilder's acidic noir benchmark
February 11, 2008
Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
August 14, 2007
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.
July 29, 2014
This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-'40s shopper's catalogue for noiristes ...
September 23, 2006
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.
March 07, 2014
Even though you already know it isn't going to end well, it's suffused with a clammy-handed anxiety that belies its age. The dialogue, too, is classic Wilder -- almost poetic in its snappy, purple lyricism.
March 07, 2014
This classic thriller from director Billy Wilder is one of the best-loved examples of film noir ever made.
June 06, 2014
The quintessential film noir -- acid and snappy, and shockingly cold-blooded.
January 20, 2015
Film noir is the most intoxicating of Hollywood cocktails, and none is more potent than Double Indemnity.
March 07, 2014
Double Indemnity is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama.
January 26, 2006
This is the gold standard of '40s noir, straight down the line.
