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1944
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.
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Film genres don’t have founding dates. They don’t start as genres, but as trends, and this was the case with film noir, which was first recognised as a genre by Nino Frank and other French film critics who, being deprived of Hollywood films during the WW2 occupation, were more likely to notice something new when their cinemas were flooded following Liberation. The actual parameters of the genre are still a matter of…More
Fuente He comenzado a ver películas que tengan posiciones altas en rankings de diversas webs de cine. En esta ocasión me tope con este título, que es un gran representante del cine negro de los 40’s. Se estrenó en 1944, siendo su director Billy Wilder. > I have started to watch movies that have high positions in the rankings of different movie websites. On this occasion I came across this title, which is a great rep…More
I had no intentions of watching anything today, nor did I have any intentions of reviewing anything! But this new user on Hive @ankushraj appeared in the Movies & TV Shows community Discord server and recommended 1944's Double Indemnity to me. And if there's an era of film that I could never grow tired of, it's the era of black-and-white film noir, where multiple genres of storytelling collide to produce a concoctio…More
*This publication was also written in* SPANISH *and* PORTUGUESE . IMDb By definition (something I'm going to do very briefly), Noir is a cinematographic subgenre that was created from police movies (something that in turn was derived from movies that involved romance and suspense within German expressionism ), which reached its peak when used by American movies. These movies are marked by an intense investigative na…More
Probably you haven't heard of it, but it is a classical movie. For those who haven't seen it then I hope this honest review can help you decide to hit the play button. It's one of those "must watch" movies with my favorite genre drama/thriller. Even tho this is a noir movie from 1944, this movie has been able to survive during the time, so if you are noir fan then I think that this movie will suit you good. It's hig…More
Great film. Classic noir to the core. Directed by Billy Wilder, written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, from the novel by James M. Cain. In a sense heist and con movies pull out the dramatic irony tool much more than most genres. Someone in the scene knows less than the audience. Double Indemnity is packed with this. The most obvious or clean example might be a short scene in a hallway. Phyllis and Walter are togeth…More
