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Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this gripping film noir from Academy Award®-winning director Billy Wilder. A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager (Edward G. Robinson). It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in this heart-racing Academy Award®-nominated masterpiece.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
96%- Reviews Counted: 52
- Fresh: 50
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 8.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Double Indemnity is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-'40s shopper's catalogue for noiristes ...
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SUSPENSE!
LITERALLY SUSPENSE,perhaps one of the most suspensful i have seen. this movie is SO entertaining from start to finish,i LOVED it. the best part is the part on the train. watch this movie it is VERY VERY good
Two superb performances, one fine film
The guy we think of as friendly, not-too-bright Fred MacMurray becomes a villain Bogart would strain to equal as a cocky, amoral insurance salesman who gets in over his head with calculating femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck, and finds everything coming apart as he tries to untangle himself from a murder. Stanwyck is sometimes brilliant; Edward G. Robinson, as MacMurray's suspicious colleague, is unforgettable throughout. Not many 70-year-old films can keep me on the edge of my seat, but Double Indemnity had me teetering from the brilliant first shots to the finale. If this didn't win an Oscar for cinematography, it should have.
One of the all time greats
The Happy Banker!!!
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- $14.99
- Genre: Thriller
- Released: 1944
- © 1944 Paramount Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.