Double Feature: DOUBLE INDEMNITY & ACE IN THE HOLE July 25, 2010

Double Feature: DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944, Universal, 107 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, the sardonic insurance salesman who is willingly seduced by slinky Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) into planning and executing the murder of her newly insured husband. Edward G. Robinson is Keyes, Neff’s sharp colleague and gruff friend, who smells a rat when Phyllis’ hubby has a fatal train "accident," qualifying the femme fatale for the lucrative double-indemnity payout.

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ACE IN THE HOLE, 1951, Paramount, 111 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Kirk Douglas is withering as the embittered, alcoholic reporter looking for his piece of the pie -- when the story of a man trapped in a cave-in falls into his lap, he exploits it to the hilt.

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