Episode 443: Double Indemnity (1944)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

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).
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.7	I killed Dietrichson.
0:14.4	Me, Walden Neth, insurance agent.
0:16.4	35 years old, unmarried, no visible scars.
0:20.6	Until a while ago, that is.
0:22.6	Yeah, I killed it.
0:26.6	I killed it for money and for a woman.
0:28.6	It all began last May.
0:31.6	I was thinking about that dame upstairs in the way she had looked at me.
0:35.6	And I wanted to see her again, close, without that silly staircase between us.
0:41.6	How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysicle?
0:45.5	I can't stand it anymore.
0:47.5	What if they do hang me?
0:49.3	They're not going to hang you, baby.
0:50.6	It's better than going on this way.
0:52.6	They're not going to hang you.
0:54.1	Because you're going to do it and I'm going to help you.
0:56.0	Yes, from the moment they met it was murder.
0:59.0	Always behind them with his devilish hunches and his brilliant brain was keys.
1:04.0	The murder's never perfect. All this comes apart sooner or later.
1:07.0	And where two people are concerned is usually sooner.
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