Rating: NR
Length: 108 minutes

Standard 1.33:1 B&W

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 2.0
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 2.0

English, French, Spanish

An insurance man (MacMurray) and the seductive wife (Stanwyck) of a well-to-do businessman conspire to have the husband killed so they can collect on the insurance. First they have to sign him up for the insurance and then eliminate him. Hot on their tale in an insurance investigator (Robinson) convinced that the husbands death was no accident.

There are a lot of good things about this film; storyline, casting, acting, very crisp video. It's fun seeing what couldn't be shown in film in 1944 that is common place now; namely sex and violence. We know that their kissing leads to sex by the fact that the kissing scene then cuts to the two of them, fully clothed; he's leaned back enjoying a smoke and she's reapplying her makeup. They couldn't even show the husband being killed.

The language is dated, I suspect if I referred to female coworkers as "sweetheart" I would be in a little bit of trouble, and her hairstyle is unique to say-the-least.

• Commentary with Film Historian Richard Schickel
• Commentary with Film Historian/Screenwriter Lem Dobbs and Film Historian Nick Redman
• Introduction by Turner Classic Movies Host and Film Historian Robert Osborne
• "Shadows of Suspense" Plunge into the World of 1940s Hollywood
• The 1973 Made-For-Television Movie "Double Indemnity" Starring Richard Crenna

Another film classic that is rated #38 at American Film Institute Top 100 movies of all time and justifiably so. A must see for any movie buff and a film that will be watched more than once.

Billy Wilder   [Some Like it Hot, Stalag 17, Sunset Blvd.]

Byron Barr - Nino Zachetti

Fortunio Bonanova - Sam Garlopis

Richard Gaines - Edward S. Norton, Jr.

Porter Hall - Mr. Jackson

Jean Heather - Lola Dietrichson

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff

John Philliber - Joe Peters

Tom Powers - Mr. Dietrichson

[Julius Caesar]

Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

[The Cincinnati Kid, The Ten Commandments]

Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson

[Union Pacific]

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