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 ...

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Guest blogger D.A. Kolodenko looks to James M. Cain’s “Double Indemnity” and the film adaptation by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler for the May Noir Book of the Month Club. This one comes to you ...

The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature ...

After more than a dozen years of selling insurance, Walter Neff knows all the tricks people pull in making phony claims. So when he hooks up with a gorgeous femme fatale trapped in a loveless marriage ...

The steady parade of DVD and Blu-Ray releases (and re-releases) gives us the frequent opportunity to watch old favorites with a fresh eye, often in cleaned-up and enhanced condition. Some of those old ...

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 ...

Though film scholars enjoy tossing around the term “film noir” to describe any number of dark and dangerous black-and-white movies from the early 1930s (in Europe) to the late 1950s (in Hollywood), it ...

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from Double Indemnity. 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 ...