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Double indemnity, a Paramount picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ; directed by Billy Wilder ; [produced by Joseph Sistrom]

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Double indemnity, a Paramount picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ; directed by Billy Wilder ; [produced by Joseph Sistrom]
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Double indemnity
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
1308956986
Responsibility statement
a Paramount picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ; directed by Billy Wilder ; [produced by Joseph Sistrom]
Runtime
108
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1126
Summary
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured
Technique
live action

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