Which one do you prefer?
Why?
Wow, I agree with everyone who has answered.
Some people prefer Double Indemnity better and it's ranked above The Maltese Falcon almost everywhere.
AFI's list :
Indemnity #29
Maltese Falcon all the way. Ever major character is unforgettable and the dialogue is the best...
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Sam Spade: You know, that's good,
Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The ...
A film that have set back to years 1938, when the experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. Walter Neff meets the seductive wife ...
Some of the movies that generated buzz at this year's Milwaukee Film Festival are coming back fast - to UWM Union Theater, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
"City of Life and Death," a black-and-white account of the Japanese army's attack on Nanking in 1937; showing at 7 p.m. Friday, 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday, and 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday; admission is $6, $5 for seniors and UWM faculty, staff and alumni; and $4 for UWM students.
"The Last Mountain," a documentary about the impact of mountaintop-removal mining, 7 p.m. Wednesday; free.
"The Woman With the Five Elephants," a film about a Ukrainian translator and the dark turns her life has taken; 7 p.m. Thursday, free.
A Liz by any other name"Elizabeth of Ladymead" is the story of one woman (sort of), four generations, four husbands - and four wars. The women, each of whom is named a variation of Elizabeth, welcome their spouses back from war into a world that has changed in their absence.
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Double indemnity This facsimile edition of Double Indemnity contains Wilder and Chandler's original -- and quite different -- ending, published here for the first time. |
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Blackout, World War II and the origins of film noir Paramount press book for Double Indemnity, 1944, PBC. 51. ... 11, 1944. 52. Although the Academy nominated Double Indemnity, it passed Wilder's film up in ... |
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Five classic LA noir movies “Double Indemnity” (1944): Fred McMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, and a plot to bump off an inconvenient husband. From the James M. Cain novel. 2. “The Big Sleep” (1946): Humphrey Bogart deals with two flashy dames, one of whom is Lauren Bacall, |
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY Playing at the Hi-Pointe Theater This Weekend Cold-blooded, brutal, and stylishly directed by Billy Wilder with a dark sense of humor, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, made back in 1944, is a prime example of the film noir genre and remains highly influential in its look, attitude and storyline. |
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Five noir movies, and six noir books | The Republic "Double Indemnity" (1944): Fred MacMurray's and Barbara Stanwyck's characters conspire to bump off an inconvenient husband. From the James M. Cain novel. 2. "The Big Sleep" (1946): Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe deals with two flashy dames, |
The Greatest Generation Was Robbed of Sexy Footwear
An early scene in the 1944 film version of “Double Indemnity,” presents the icy, ultimately murderous, housewife Phyllis Dietrichson racing down a flight of stairs, shod in medium-high white satin pumps with a flirtatious pom-pom on the vamp.
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The Top Ten Films Noir According to 'Road to Perdition' Writer Max Allan Collins The Ten Greatest Films Noir: Yes, I know I'm supposed to prefer Billy Wilder's James M. Cain adaptation, Double Indemnity (1944), but that film is cold at the center, and classic Cain generates heat. For me, most great films noir are love stories – as |
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