Double Indemnity

Don't really have any strong feelings about this film--it's your typical film noir--but then again it might have been one of the films to define the genre (1944). Aesthetically I can't warm to Barbara Stanwyck and her character seems vapid when she should be more, well for lack a better word, Bette Davis-like. Fred MacMurray was similarly forgettable, only Ed Robinson as Keyes, the paternalistic and blustery insurance investigator. Not one of Billy Wilder's best films.