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X-WR-CALNAME:VTIFF Screening: Double Indemnity (1944)
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DESCRIPTION: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 co-writer Raym
 ond Chandler\, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A
 -list with this epitome of film noir fatalism\, adapted from James M. Cain
 ’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks in
 to the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck\
 , whose entrance via anklet is still breathtaking)\, he intends to sell in
 surance\, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinist
 er way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson a
 nd 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. Double Indemnity was nominated for se
 ven Oscars\, though it won none (all due respect to Ingrid Bergman’s wor
 k in Gaslight\, but Stanwyck got robbed!).
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LOCATION:Screening Room @VTIFF
SUMMARY:VTIFF Screening: Double Indemnity (1944)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.uvm.edu/event/vtiff-screening-double-indemnity
 -1944
CATEGORIES:Film and movies
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