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Film School Rejects: Old Ass Movies: Kill For the Money with ‘Double Indemnity’

  • Lance St Laurent · 2 months ago
    This is weird. I'm watching this movie today for my Cinematic & Literary Adaptations class.
  • Cole_Abaius · 2 months ago
    Such a fantastic movie, and I think the best part is the against-type casting. Fred MacMurray is so damned likable that seeing him in something like Double Indemnity is really cool to see. Sort of like seeing Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.
  • Jim_Rohner · 2 months ago
    The best part is that Fred MacMurray was once quoted as saying that in all the movies he starred in, there were only two in which he actually had to act: Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Two Wilder films.
  • Mike S · 2 months ago
    I'm all for giving Wilder more cred. He had an amazing batting average with more classics than duds, and the man had range. Comedy, melodrama, pitch black comedy, screwball comedy, drama - you throw a genre at him, bam! he would knock it out of the park more times than not.
  • Jim_Rohner · 2 months ago
    I would've loved to see him tackle a horror film
  • dragonmum · 2 months ago
    I don't usually like older movies, but Fred MacMurray is my favorite actor of his generation, so I had to check out Double Indemnity when I found it, and I just loved it. Bleak, dark, brutal (for the times), and brilliantly scripted. And yes, Stanwyck was smokin' hot.
  • Jim_Rohner · 2 months ago
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  • nickdenife · 2 months ago
    This is a GREAT movie, but there was a scene at the end that no one seems to know about: Edward G. Robinson witnessing the execution of Fred MacMurray in the gas chamber. I heard Wilder ultimately cut the scene because it was too intense. I'd love to see it.
  • Jim_Rohner · 2 months ago
    I tried to think of a way to incorporate that ending into the piece, but just couldn't squeeze it. It does mesh with his cynical worldview, but it's a bit too cynical and too dark. I've seen production stills from it, but I don't think the footage exists anymore.
  • FloatDownstream · 2 months ago
    Oh, that dialogue... and Billy Wilder is definitely one of the top 20 directors of all time, if not even top 10. You should compile a list. You should also feature Wilder more often.