Double Indemnity: The Criterion Collection

Summary

Double Indemnity, released on Blu-ray 30th May 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured.

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers

Director

Billy Wilder

Producer

Joseph Sistrom

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

1 hour 48 minutes

Release date

30/05/2022

Hash Tag

#DoubleIndemnity #CriterionCollection

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Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve)? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder (Ace in the Hole) launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this paragon of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain's pulp novel.

When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred Macmurray - The Caine Mutiny) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way.

Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro of cinematographer John F. Seitz (Sunset Blvd.), Double Indemnity is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured.

Double Indemnity is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 30th May 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring film critic Richard Schickel
New interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, editor of Billy Wilder on Assignment
New conversation between film historians Eddie Muller and Imogen Sara Smith
Billy, How Did You Do It?, a 1992 film by Volker Schlöndorff and Gisela Grischow featuring interviews with director Billy Wilder
Shadows of Suspense, a 2006 documentary on the making of Double Indemnity
Audio excerpts from 1971 and 1972 interviews with cinematographer John F. Seitz
Radio adaptations from 1945 and 1950
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

Fred MacMurray

The Apartment: Limited Edition, The Caine Mutiny

Billy Wilder

The Apartment: Limited Edition, Stalag 17: Masters of Cinema, Ace in the Hole, The Lost Weekend: Masters of Cinema

Porter Hall

Ace in the Hole, Make Way for Tomorrow: The Criterion Collection

Edward G. Robinson

The Woman In The Window: Masters of Cinema, Night Has a Thousand Eyes: Limited Edition

Barbara Stanwyck

Walk on the Wild Side

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