Review of Double Indemnity (1944) by Pauline Kael for New Yorker — 02 Jan 2018
This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films. Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson—a platinum blonde who wears tight white sweaters, an anklet, and sleazy-kinky shoes—is perhaps the best acted and the most fixating of all the slutty, cold-blooded femmes fatales of the film-noir genre.
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This review of Double Indemnity (1944) was written by Pauline Kael and published by New Yorker on 02 January 2018.
Double Indemnity has generally received very positive reviews.
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