Double indemnity

Barbara Stanwyck with Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (the woman actually wearing an ankle bracelet)

Billy Wilder’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s slim novel of sex, murder, and the art of the insurance investigation provided a template for many subsequent noir films.

Film Noir as appointed by many sources is a film sub-genre that first developed in the United States as a fruit of many influences, first and foremost, Germ

Billy Wilder’s classic film noir is a powerful meditation on masculinity, desire, and the fantasies of white America.

Double Indemnity (1944)

Film noir, flourishing in America throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s, is one of the most disturbing of movie genres – is it, in the first place, a disti