Double Indemnity

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I believe this was the subject of a “critic’s pick” in the New York Times, and I learned it was by Billy Wilder.

There’s the who-was-there-to-love problem—almost every character is unpleasant to take in or neutral—and the cynicism seemed manufactured and thickly laid on in a cynical way. Fred MacMurray in villain mode is so villainous as to be hard to take (as in The Apartment, but there he doesn’t dominate the move the way he does here). It was good to see James Cagney in action as the insurance inspector with integrity.