CAVANAUGH: Femme fatales, dark streets, and darker motives make up the seductive world of film noir. How do you transfer this quintessential movie style to the stage? Beth Accomando went behind the ...

Critics debate whether "Double Indemnity" was the first true film noir, but the real question may be what took so long for Billy Wilder's 1944 pic to finally get the deluxe DVD treatment. Wilder’s ...

In a lost final scene dropped from 1944’s Double Indemnity, Edward G. Robinson’s insurance investigator stands by as his friend, played by Fred MacMurray, is put to death at San Quentin prison. “It ...

Film noirs don’t come any better–or tougher and more seductive–than Billy Wilder’s 1944 movie of James M. Cain’s blistering crime novel “Double Indemnity,” available now in a two-disc special edition.

Double Indemnity has it all. It is a film about love, sex, murder, and jealousy – with a splash of insurance fraud thrown in for good measure. And yet, Billy Wilder’s 1944 noir masterpiece, released ...

On April 24, 1944, Billy Wilder's thriller, eventually nominated for seven Oscars at the 17th Academy Awards ceremony, was reviewed in THR. By THR Staff On April 24, 1944, Billy Wilder’s thriller ...

Let's get right to the point. Walter Neff is a murderer: "Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman." Fred MacMurray plays the ...

A lot of people laugh at 1944's hard-boiled proto-noir classic Double Indemnity the first time they see it, and it's hard to imagine that director Billy Wilder would've disapproved. Wilder made his ...

An insurance salesman has an affair with the wife of a client, who persuades him to help kill her husband for the policy he ...

Double Indemnity is a classic piece of filmmaking that perhaps embodies the term film noir. It's got the smart guy whose wits fail him around a lovely lady, the dangerous beauty who is best looked ...