Double Indemnity
1944
Los Angeles, California
Billy Wilder
Noir Thriller
What’s it all about: It’s the 1930s, and double indemnity comes with a lot of double entendre. Barbara Stanwyck is the kind of woman that shoots you while deciding whether she loves you or not. Fred MacMurray is so hard-boiled he cracks.
Prostitute Index: nil
Death By: a red hot poker
Relics: soda water bottle, dictaphone, drive-in restaurant
Hoops: car trouble at a key moment (this film may have invented this hoop)
Heartthrob: Barbara Stanwyck
Pass/Fails the Test of Time: one of those California Spanish houses everyone was nuts about 10 or 15 years ago
LoFi Magic: the shadow cast by Fred MacMurray and his fedora
Words to live by: “I don’t know why they always put what I want on the top shelf.”
Makes me want to: be from California
Candotti Take: n/a
Worth a watch/rewatch: Yes
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