Double indemnity
Paramount Pictures; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler; directed by Billy Wilder
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Edition:
- [Special ed.]
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1944
- Publication:
- Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, [2006]
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- Summary:
- Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- In English.
- Main Work:
- Related Works:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Double indemnity [by Cain, J.M.]
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- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- Performers:
- Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather.
- Production Credits:
- Director of photography, John Seitz ; editor, Doane Harrison ; music, Miklos Rozsa.
- General Notes:
- DVD release of the 1944 motion picture.
Based on the novel by James M. Cain.
Special features: "Shadows of suspense"; audio commentary from film historian Richard Schickel; audio commentary with film historian/screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman; "Double indemnity" TV movie (1973, 75 min.). - Audience:
- Not rated.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 107 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- DOU 1944 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 1417072512
9781417072514 - Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 025192907821
Publisher Number, Universal Pictures: 29078 - OCLC Numbers:
- 760129501
68693776 [Invalid]
