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Episode 443: Double Indemnity (1944)
Episode 443: Double Indemnity (1944)
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108 minutes
Released:
Nov 27, 2019
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Podcast episode
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Noirvember 2019 wraps up with Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944). With a screenplay co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler and based on a story by James M. Cain, the film is one of the seminal works of film noir. It stars Fred MacMurray as fast-talking Walter Neff, an insurance agent who gets played for a dope by a dame. The dame in question, Phyllis Dietrichsen, is played by the one and only Barbara Stanwyk. The two cook up an insurance scam to pay off big after they bump off her husband.Keith Gordon and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss Double Indemnity, it's 1973 remake, the adult adaptation Eruption (1977), Body Heat (1981), and the Body Heat/Double Indemnity mash-up, Jism (2003).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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