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 ...
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Double Indemnity
It's love and murder at first sight!
1944 · 1h 47m · Approved
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's insurance.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff
- Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
- Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes
- Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson
- Richard Gaines as Edward S. Norton, Jr.
- Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson
- Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson
- Byron Barr as Nino Zachetti
- Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Garlopis
- John Philliber Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
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.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
This is the gold standard of '40s noir, straight down the line.
Jessica Winter, Time Out
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