Double indemnity
(Blu-ray Video) 

Based on the novel: Double indemnity / by James M. Cain.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Accompanied by folded insert containing essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién.

Special features on disc one: new 4K digital restoration; audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel; new interview with Noah Isenberg; film historians Eddie Muller and Imogen Sara Smith conversation on the "definitive" noir; 2006 documentary Shadows of suspense, about the making of Double indemnity; radio adaptations (one from March 5, 1945 with the Screen Guild Theater and one from October 30, 1950 with the Lux Radio Theatre); trailer -- on disc two: Billy, how did you do it? (a 186 min. television documentary that appeared as 3 episodes on the series Arena in January 1992, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Gisela Grischow) -- on insert: essay by Jade Bastién.

Director of photography, John Seitz ; editorial supervision, Doane Harrison ; music score, Miklos Rozsa ; costumes by Edith Head.

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

Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told and the cynical standard by which all noir must be measured.

Blu-ray; region A; full screen; LPCM monoaural ; requires Blu-ray player.

In English.

Academy Awards 1945: Nominees: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Sound, Recording, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture