Movie #71: Double Indemnity

Movie #: 71
Movie Title: Double Indemnity
Year Released: 1944

Director: Billy Wilder
Notable Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber

Short Description: An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #29
IMDB.com: #58
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #35



Date Watched: 8/4/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: I was ready to write off Double Indemnity as just another boring movie before this slow starter found a new gear beginning with a staged death on a train. What followed was an intricate story of attempting to cover the tracks of the staged death while the walls are closing in due to nosey insurance men putting the pieces together to determine insurance fraud. Maybe is wasn't quite as suspenseful as my words make it sound, but it's a well-executed detective-like plot told from the vantage of the perpetrator committing an inside job while being a fellow insurance man.