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Our 32nd Top 100 podcast is the brilliant noir about lust and insurance scams, Double Indemnity! Did it live up to Ryan's hype? Did we like Fred MacMurray in the lead and Edward G. Robinson (nyah!) in a supporting role? Plus, is Barbara Stanwyck the devil? All that and a bunch more is yours for the listenin’!

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Nov 25, 2013

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Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!

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