Monday, May 3, 2010

Double Indemnity (1944)



It's incredible that a film more than 65 years old is still more intense, more suspenseful and more brilliantly crafted than 99% of all the thrillers Hollywood has ever produced. In 1945 the Academy demonstrated its irrelevance by nominating Double Indemnity seven times but awarding it nothing. Perhaps they weren't ready to come to terms with the fact that a picture about people misbehaving could somehow be more significant than a Bing Crosby musical.
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2 comments:

Unknown said...

5 stars for a b/w mooovie? Come on man!

scituate said...

I was as surprised as you were.