Saturday, January 30, 2016

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 must-see film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. It's directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. If all you remember of Fred MacMurray is My Three Sons, then you need to see this classic. Well, you need to see it anyway.

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The 1944 NYT review thinks Robinson is the stand-out here. Empire Online thinks it most surely should have won the Best Picture Oscar in its year and calls it "Film noir at its finest, a template of the genre".

It's on Roger Ebert's Great Movie list. Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 96%.

6 comments:

  1. We saw this not long ago on Swedish television, it´s a really great film!

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    1. MacMurray is great in dramas and comedies, both.

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  2. I guess My Three Sons was before my time, but MacMurray looks a bit familiar. I really want to see this, because it sounds like a good movie.

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    1. My 3 Sons ran 'til 1972. He was also in The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Son of Flubber (1963), which would _definitely_ be before your time if hat tv series was lol. You might've seen him in The Caine Mutiny (1954), it gets a lot of tv play at times.

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  3. One of my favorite Fred MacMurray films is the early sixties Disney movie Follow me Boys.Fred is passing through a small town and ends up becoming the Boy Scout leader and living his whole life in that town.

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    1. I've never seen that one but will be on the look-out for it. googling.... It seems to get good reviews online, and it seems to fit my husband's favorite type of movie: funny, with a happy ending :) I think MacMurray is generally underrated. He had such a wide range!

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