Double Indemnity
- Mon, Nov 24
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Billy Wilder Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 1944
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Murder. Lust. Insurance. The perfect crime? Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, the film that defined film noir, is our Page To Screen pick for November!
Fred MacMurray stars as Walter Neff, a slick insurance salesman whose routine pitch turns deadly when he meets Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck, all anklet and ice). Together they hatch a plan to kill her husband and collect on his policy—simple on paper, until suspicion, guilt, and one relentless claims adjuster (Edward G. Robinson) start to close in.
Written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from James M. Cain’s pulp novel, Double Indemnity is a razor-sharp descent into desire and doom, crackling with hard-boiled dialogue and the most lethal femme fatale in film history.