Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2014: Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)

"Billy Wilder and his collaborators squeezed all the elements that tend to define noir into one deadly package, just as that genre was beginning to solidify. Yet I'd go one further than identifying Double Indemnity as a prime exemplar of noir style. I'd call it the single steamiest collision of eros and thanatos ever put to film. No other movie has made sex and death into such natural (and appealing) bedmates." ~ Andreas Stoehr

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