Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.45pm
This is a 35mm presentation.
Chicago Reader review:
James M. Cain's pulp classic (1944), as adapted by Raymond Chandler and
directed by Billy Wilder. Barbara Stanwyck is perfectly cast as a Los
Angeles dragon lady burdened with too much time, too much money, and a
dull husband. Fred MacMurray (less effectively) is the fly-by-night
insurance salesman who hopes to relieve her of all three. Wilder trades
Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the
atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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