Double Indemnity [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Byron Barr Porter Hall
	Video by:	Universal Studios
	Sales Rank:	26838

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Actor(s):
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Byron Barr
Porter Hall

Creators:
John F. Seitz (Cinematographer)
Billy Wilder (Writer)
Buddy G. DeSylva (Producer)
Joseph Sistrom (Producer)
James M. Cain (Writer)
Raymond Chandler (Writer)

Director(s):
Billy Wilder

Recording label: Universal Studios
EAN: 9781558807785
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 1558807780
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Universal product code (UPC): 096898017435
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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Director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) and writer Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) 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 (notably in the TV series My Three Sons and the movie The Shaggy Dog), is convincingly cast against type as the hapless, love-struck sap. --Jenny Brown

Running time: 107 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)