| | Double Indemnity DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Suspense, Romance, Recommended, Murder, Classic, Essential Cinema, Betrayal, Infidelity, Film Noir, Psychodrama, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, Melodrama, AFI Top 100 Passions, AFI Top 50 Villains, Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time | | Starring | Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Gaines, Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova, Tom Powers, Jean Heather, Byron Barr | | Director | Billy Wilder | | Composer | Miklos Rozsa, Cesar Franck | | Director of Photography | John Seitz | | Editor | Doane Harrison | | Producer | Joseph Sistrom | | Production Designer | Hal Pereira, Hans Dreier | | Screenwriter | Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler | | Source Writer | James M. Cain |
Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Special Edition Billy Wilder's classic noir, a familiar brew of lust, larceny, and lethal intentions, stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a hot-blooded couple. Framed in flashback, the story is told by the dying Walter Neff (MacMurray), beginning with his first meeting with the seductive Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) during a routine renewal of her husband's car insurance. After some flirtation she arranges a meeting without her husband, where she asks about an accident policy to be bought without her husband's knowledge. Although repulsed by the implications of her suggestions, his obsession with Phyllis leads Neff to contemplate the possibility of finding a way to kill her husband while making his death look like an accident. After she comes to his apartment, the insurance salesman finally agrees to become involved in the murder, and the two of them begin methodically working out the details. After they dispose of Dietrichson, Neff learns more than he wanted about Phyllis' unsavory past, but realizes he's now too involved to extricate himself. He's also concerned about his a boss, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), an omniscient insurance investigator who has taken over the case. DOUBLE INDEMNITY is brilliant noir, among the best of the genre, with a byzantine yet utterly plausible plot, stylized hard-boiled dialogue by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and three terrific performances by Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson. DOUBLE INDEMNITY was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1992.
Other films written by novelist Raymond Chandler include AND NOW TOMORROW; THE BLUE DAHLIA, from his own story; and THE UNSEEN.
The story of DOUBLE INDEMNITY was inspired by the notorious Snyder-Gray murder that took place in Queens Village, New York, in the 1920s. Albert Snyder was bludgeoned to death by his wife, Ruth, and her lover, Judd Gray, in order to collect his insurance money.
Woody Allen considers this to be the greatest movie ever made. Double Indemnity Reviews: "...INDEMNITY has all the classic elements..."
-- Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today "The noir formula takes a giant step forward: a domineering femme fatale; a dark, Expressionist visual style; and a violent, unhappy ending..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[O]ne of the most memorable thrillers in Hollywood history."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound "Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis was the greatest of the hardboiled noir temptresses."
-- Brian Case, Uncut Ranked #3 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "The ultimate sex-greed-death classic."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut "Stanwyck cracks wise...while dripping pheromones." -- Grade: A-- Chris Willman, Entertainment Weekly "DOUBLE INDEMNITY belongs to the early stages of American film noir....[With] a gallery of great character actors..."-- Dave Kehr, New York Times "Film noir doesn't get more classic than Billy Wilder's 1944 tale of greed and lust."-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
This is the only Byron Barr video. Double Indemnity | List Price | $26.98 (You save $5.69) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 1944 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4840  | | CD Universe Part number | 7107225 | | Catalog number | 61029078 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Aug 22, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 107 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Special Edition | | Movie Details | B&W; Full Frame; Special Edition; 2-Disc Special Edition; Universal Legacy Series |
Double Indemnity Movie Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   OFTEN IMITATED, NEVER SURPASSED!!
This is the ultimate film noir to surpass them all!! Although filmed in the 40's yet it gets better with each passing decade! Often imitated, in fact in the late 50's there was an Egyptian Movie entitled "For the Sake of a Woman" (Omar Shariff had the leading part) which was an exact photocopy of this masterpiece, but they will never ever make a similar gem. Don't dare to miss it!!
Submitted by y.ben-david (Givatayim, Israel.) 
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Any fan of film noir should own this movie. From its perfectly interpreted James M. Cain California locations to its dialogue crackling with Hays Office era sexual innuendo, this is among the best films of its kind. Barbara Stanwyck is a textbook femme fatale (especially in the car as her husband is murdered) and Edward G. Robinson must have written the chapter on wry wit by his performance as wily insurance investigator Keyes. Fred MacMurray may be a bit wooden in some scenes, but he more than makes up for it by his expressions during the dialogue in the first scene at the Dietrichson house as Stanwyck descends the stairs in her ankle bracelet.
A good quality print of this film was a long time coming. (It was previously available only in a scratchy sounding version with Chinese subtitles.) The extra documentary is fun, too.
Submitted by lcella9370 (New York City)
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 Double Indemnity in deed...
You've either seen it, read the reviews and waited just as long as the rest of us for a release of this classic on DVD, so ENJOY ... the wait is OVER! The studio thoughtfully includes the 1973 remake on a separate disc for the purchase price. Both prints are superb, but you'll soon discover that the bonus wasn't necessary.
Submitted by oldfilmbuff (Tulsa, OK)
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One of the BEST Film Noir's made!
Excellent tale of how unbridled lust and greed can make a seemingly nice normal person do terrible things. The story reaches out and grabs you. When watching the cool,calm,collected murders start to sweat and slowly unravel, you find you NEED to know what's going to happen next! Like all film noirs there are no hero's but you find yourself rooting for someone anyway. The movie may been made over 50 years ago but the human condition - desire, lust,jealousy, greed, money, murder, desperation, fear... never gets old.
Submitted by mabavaro (boston)
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I think Fred MacMurray was the wrong choice as the bad guy & there wasn't a hero! Who do you root for?
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Double Indemnity DVD 2-Disc Set
Region 1
Snap Case
Special Edition
Disc 1: DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono - English, Spanish
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Disc 2: Bonus Features
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono - English
Subtitles - English (SDH), French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Introduction: Robert Osborne
Featurette: SHADOWS OF SUSPENSE
Audio Commentary:
1. Richard Schicker - Film Historian
2. Lem Dobbs - Film Historian/Screenwriter; Nick Redman - Film Historian
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