Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this epitome of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to sell insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz, Double Indemnity is one of the most entertainingly perverse stories ever told and the standard by which all noir must be measured.

Product details

Director	Billy Wilder
Actor	Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Label	SONY PICTURES HE

Genre	Crime
Content	Blu-ray
Publication date	30.05.2022
Region code	B
Edition	b/w, Criterion Collection
Version	UK Version
Original title	Double Indemnity
Year of production	1944
Audio	English (Dolby Digital)

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Crime

Customer reviews

Un classique du film noir

Written on 11. August 2023 by Marlowe.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

Excellent film, Barbara Stanwick est majestueuse, et l’intrigue est très bien menée, on se croirait dans un film d’Hitchcock, qui s’en est certainement inspiré.
Par contre préférez la v.o.s.t. car la qualité sonore de la version française est abominable, j’ai essayé plusieurs qualité de son sur ma tv, mais à moins de l’écouter au casque on ne comprends que la moitié des dialogues.