Today's New York Times has a mini-review by Dave Kehr of
Double Indemnity
(prompted by today's DVD release) that may be of some
interest. Kehr is never given much space for his DVD
appraisals, but he makes good use of every word. Here, he
sums up film noir as "a collision between the visual
conventions of German Expressionism and the lurid plotting of
the American pulp novel," before covering much of early film
noir history in only a sentence of two. His comments about
"Indemnity" and Billy Wilder's preference for literary
substance over film style seem well thought out, but I can't
say I agree with him that MacMurray was
"over-his-head."
Sorry that I can't provide the site address. It goes on for
far too many characters. But it should be easy to access by
going to the New York Times, today's edition, Movies, and New
DVDs: Double Indemnity.
Dick Lochte
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