Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Double indemnity / a Paramount picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ; directed by Billy Wilder ; [produced by Joseph Sistrom].

Edition:

Blu-ray edition

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

Description:

2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

stamping

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray 1080p high definition

region A

Summary:

Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a\ far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 1126

Criterion collection ; 1126.

Subjects:

Murder -- Drama.

Insurance agents -- United States -- Drama.

Adultery -- United States -- Drama.

Insurance investigators -- United States -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Film noir.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Crime films.

Film adaptations.

Other Author:

Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, film director, screenwriter.

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959, screenwriter.

Sistrom, Joseph, 1912-1966, film producer.

Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990, actor.

MacMurray, Fred, 1908-1991, actor.

Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973, actor.

Hall, Porter, 1888-1953, actor.

Heather, Jean, actor.

Powers, Tom, 1890-1955, actor.

Barr, Byron, 1917-1966, actor.

Gaines, Richard, 1904-1975, actor.

Bonanova, Fortunio, 1895-1969, actor.

Philliber, John, 1872-1944, actor.

Seitz, John F. (John Francis), 1892-1979, director of photography.

Harrison, Doane, 1894-1968, editor of moving image work.

Rózsa, Miklós, 1907-1995, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Double indemnity.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Shadows of suspense (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Billy, how do you do it? (Motion picture)

Notes:

Based on the novel: Double indemnity / by James M. Cain.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Special features include new 4K digital restoration, audio commentary by Richard Schickel, new interview with Noah Isenberg, film historian Eddie Muller conversation, 1992 film, Billy, how did you do it?; 2006 documentary Shadows of suspense about the making of Double indemnity; radion adaptations, trailer; plus essay by Jade Bastién.

disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.

Director of photography, John Seitz ; editorial supervision, Doane Harrison ; music score, Miklos Rozsa ; costumes by Edith Head.

Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortuno Bonanova, John Philliber

Blu-ray; region A, aspect ratio 1.37:1; requires Blu-ray player.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Academy Awards 1945: Nominees: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Sound, Recording, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture

ISBN:

9781681439396

1681439395

9781681439396 : BRHD

1681439395 : BRHD

Publisher Number:

CC3360BD

Other Number:

1308956986

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

1

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

977416

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Double i