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Double Indemnity (1944) watch along (Patreon)

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2025-04-18 13:00:17
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#29 on the AFI List

WOW! This movie didn't disappoint! SO much going on, so much meaning in all the SHOTS. I loved how the lighting created so many shadows and an aesthetic, so I see why people love this genre. This movie is way more twisted and racy than you'd expect for the '40s.

Billy Wilder is a genius; he takes this noir setup and layers it with so much tension, wit, and moral messiness that you can’t look away. It oozes style, and the dialogue is razor sharp. It's hard watching this train wreck tbh HA! Honestly, it's a great film, and I think I'll like it even better upon rewatching because there is so much more to uncover.

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ames

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Catchermag

Amazing!!🤩 Awesome 👏!

Joe R

Body Heat - 1981 was made using the same basic plot. It starred William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. A pretty good sexy thriller.

Catchermag

Great reaction. I loved the way your jaw dropped when Lola and Walter were in the hills and she told him about Nino visiting Phyllis. What a great twist! Also, speaking AS a salesman, not all of us are scummy. Some are, but…..

AJ

I really liked Double Indemnity. The smart dialog, the innuendo, and the multiple twists. Cool to see Neff plan the crime and then Keyes try to solve the case and Phyllis manipulate everyone. She goes on the POS rank a thon ballot for sure. The dark, smokey, noir style was rad. Not my favorite movie ever but enjoyed it. I always thought the Naked Gun spoof scenes of it were just random funny scenes but the stairs and ankle bracelet jokes way better now.

MikeLL

Ah, film noir, where there are always a bunch of bad guys and the gals are often badder. Where the gray area just fills the whole world. This movie just drips with atmosphere. I loved watching it with Aames, and her literally jaw dropping reaction! Give me moooaarrr!! I want to point out that Edward G. Robinson had a massive career. One of the first gangsters on screen with the incredible Little Caeser. And when Katherine Hepburn goes all gangster moll in the jail cell in Bringing Up Baby she is using the "gangster voice" that was created by the OG himself, bad boy Eddie G! Edward G. Robinson starred in a wonderfully entertaining B picture in 1938 called The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse with Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart as the gangster. That is a film that I will never see any reactor do a reaction to, but it is still one of my favorite unseen "little films." They just don't make them anymore!

James Rogers

To prepare myself for the watch-along I poured myself a glass of Scotch. Since I had to give up smoking, I used pieces of nicotine gum instead of ice cubes. I've decided to call the resulting effect noircolepsy. What a wonderful film. Love Barbara Stanwyck's smolderingly sensual psycho-bitch. Love Edward G. Robinson's smartest-guy-in-the-room schtick. Great writing to get around the Hays Code. Couldn't stop smiling the entire time. My favorite reaction so far this year. Thanks Ames.

Robert Evans

'Double Indemnity' is part of that pantheon of film where the movie is better than the book. In fact Caine who wrote the book credits Wilder and Chandler with crafting a much better ending than he had. This movie acted as my compas for my first published novel 'Vulcan's Forge' an SF film noir that sadly came out the week the world shut down for COVID in 200.