Double indemnity
By: a Paramount Picture ; screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ; directed by Billy Wilder
Contributors: Sistrom, Joseph, 1912-1966, film producer; MacMurray, Fred, 1908-1991, actor; Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990, 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; Rózsa, Miklós, 1907-1995, composer (expression); Seitz, John F. (John Francis), 1892-1979, director of photography; Harrison, Doane, 1894-1968, editor of a moving image work; Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977; Paramount Pictures, Inc; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 108
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Drama; Man-woman relationships; Double indemnity; Adultery; Insurance investigators; Murder
Other titles: Container of (work): Double indemnity (Motion picture); Container of (expression): Double indemnity (Motion picture). Spanish.
Description: An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
Notes: Full screen (1.33.1).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Based on the novel by James M. Cain.

Special features: introduction by Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne; Shadows of suspense: documentary on film noir and the making of Double indemnity, "plunge into the world of 1940s Hollywood with a revealing look at a movie masterpiece"; audio commentary with film historian Richard Schickel; audio commentary with film historian/screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman; original theatrical trailer.

Photography by John Seitz ; editorial supervisor, Doane Harrison ; music by Miklos Rozsa ; produced by Joseph Sistrom.

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

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 2.0 mono; Full frame, 1.33:1.

In English or Spanish with optional English SDH, French, or Spanish subtitles.

National Film Registry selection, 1992.