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Double Indemnity
(1944)
You Can't Kiss Away A Murder!
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Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, James M. Cain
Language: English
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Duration: 104
DVD Release: May 2008

Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out. From the opening scene you know Neff is doomed, as the story is told in flashback; yet, to the film's credit, this doesn't diminish any of the tension of the movie. This early film noir flick is wonderfully campy by today's standards, and the dialogue is snappy ("I thought you were smarter than the rest, Walter. But I was wrong. You're not smarter, just a little taller"), filled with lots of "dame"s and "baby"s. Stanwyck is the ultimate femme fatale, and MacMurray, despite a career largely defined by roles as a softy, is convincingly cast against type as the hapless, love-struck sap. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com


Fred MacMurrayWalter Neff
Barbara StanwyckPhyllis Dietrichson
Edward G Robinson
Edward G. RobinsonBarton Keyes
Edmund CobbTrain Conductor (uncredited)
Porter HallMr. Jackson
Jean HeatherLola Dietrichson
Tom PowersMr. Dietrichson
Byron BarrNino Zachetti
Judith Gibson
Richard GainesEdward S. Norton, Jr.
Miriam FranklinKeyes' Secretary (uncredited)
Sam Gorlopis
Fortunio BonanovaSam Garlopis
John PhilliberJoe Peters
George AndersonWarden at Execution (scenes deleted)
Miklós RózsaComposer
Al BridgeExecution Chamber Guard (scenes deleted)
John F. SeitzCinematographer
Victor SchertzingerComposer
Edward HearnWarden's Secretary (scenes deleted)
Boyd IrwinFirst Doctor at Execution (scenes deleted)
Doane HarrisonEditor
George MelfordSecond Doctor at Execution (scenes deleted)
William O'LearyChaplain at Execution (scenes deleted)
Buddy G. DeSylvaExecutive Producer
William O'Leary (III)
César FranckFeatured music
Lee ShumwayDoor Guard at Execution (scenes deleted)
Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
Kernan CrippsConductor
Bess FlowersNorton's Secretary
Harold GarrisonRedcap
Teala LoringPacific All-Risk Telephone Operator (uncredited)
George MagrillMan (uncredited)
Sam McDanielCharlie, Garage Attendant (uncredited)
James AdamsonPullman Porter (uncredited)
Clarence MuseMan (uncredited)
Val KilmerDr. Nicholas Pinter
John BerryBit Part (uncredited)
Izabella MikoKatrine
Julian WadhamSterling
Hristo ShopovSerik
Betty FarringtonNettie, Dietrichsons' Maid (uncredited)
Eddie HallMan in Drug Store (uncredited)
Michael CroninMr. Jacob
Valentine PelkaMurdoch
Frank Billy MitchellPullman Porter (uncredited)
Valentin GanevLudvik Seifert
Stanley CooleySound Department
Constance PurdyFat Shopper in Market (uncredited)
Rushen VidinievAgent Finney
Zahary BaharovAlexander
Walter OberstSound Department
Velislav PavlovAslan
Dick RushPullman Conductor (uncredited)
Loren L. RyderSound Department
Emil Zdravkov MarkovDetective
Hans DreierArt Director
Stanislav PishtalovLebedev
Floyd ShackelfordPullman Porter (uncredited)
Julian VergovVictor
Hal PereiraArt Director
Jeremy ZimmermanAgent Davies
Bertram C. GrangerSet Decorator
Oscar SmithPullman Porter (uncredited)
Edith HeadCustome Designer
Javor BaharoffAgent Bouquet
Wally WestmoreMakeup Artist
Douglas SpencerLouis L. ('Lou') Schwartz (uncredited)
Hollis Barneshair stylist
Robert EwingMakeup Artist
Charles C. ColemanAssistant Director
Bill Sheehansecond assistant director
Jack Colcondaprops
Jim Cottrellprops
Genre: Film Noir
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 1.0
IMDb: 0036775