Double Indemnity (1944)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:40
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by... [More]
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
Director: Billy Wilder
Reviews for Double Indemnity
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Edward G. Robinson stars as MacMurray's associate, but it's Barbara Stanwyck that rules the roost as one of cinema's most diabolical femme fatals. Full Review |
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92/100 |
Writer/director Billy Wilder cements all the hallmarks of a style that comes into its own with this wicked and suspenseful portrait of capitalist greed and post-war anxiety. Full Review |
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B |
Notable for its perfect cast, great performances, deft direction and of course that sparkling dialogue. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Sizzling and sassy, this thriller still cuts it amongst today's effects-laden offerings. Full Review |
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4/5 |
If you like your dialogue hardboiled, your lighting shadowy, and your femmes fatales preposterously evil, then look no further: Billy Wilder's 1944 adaptation of James M Cain's insurance-scam novella. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Right up there with Billy Wilder's very best work. Full Review |
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Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of the true gems of film noir. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Thanks to DVD, Phyllis will always be there waiting for you. Same chair, same perfume, same anklet, ready to make you wonder what she wonders. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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95/100 |
Wilder's direction is crisp and the lighting and cinematography (by John F. Seitz) have become iconic touchstones. Full Review |
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3/4 |
An accepted classic and archetypal film noir, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is visually drab and flabby around the edges. Full Review |
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Three superlative perfromances, by Stanwyck, Fred MacMaurray, and Edward G. Robinson (the best of their careers), along with sharp, witty, macabre, and double-entendre dialogue, makes this quintessential noir one of the best Wilder and studio movies made. Full Review |
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This is the gold standard of ’40s noir, straight down the line. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Representante máximo do noir, conta com uma trama fascinante, atuações impecáveis, fotografia e direção irretocáveis e, é claro, diálogos inesquecíveis.
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5/5 |
Film noir at its finest, a template of the genre, etc. Billy Wilder in full swing, Barbara Stanwyck's finest hour, and Fred MacMurray makes a great chump. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Stanwyck, MacMurray and Robinson are superb in classic murder for profit story.
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