Body Heat and Double Indemnity: great films on their own or too close for...
Watched both again in the last few days and re-impressed by each. Kasdan injects Heat's story with a density that is so interesting and palatable, and the story arcs weave together so well in the last...
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The scene where the breeze hits Hurt just before he sees Turner for the first time is really fun. And like earlier posters wrote, the dialogue in this film is really good. When he's going to get her a...
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I read DOUBLE INDEMNITY not too long ago. Cain's ending is quite a bit different from the movie. Keyes arranges for the doomed couple to sail away on a cruise ship, but they know they've had it and...
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With you there, MP. It's a brilliant ending from Wilder & Chandler - and it's sold by pitch-perfect acting on the part of Robinson & MacMurray.
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Finally saw "Indemnity" last night and quite enjoyed it. MacMurray is slightly out of his league here, but I know I'm in the minority. His macho overtures to Stanwyck don't quite "ring" to me, I...
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One of the key differences between the two films is Stanwyck is actually greedier than she is smart. She lets Mac do all the planning. Hurt is just along fo the ride as his lady has it all worked out...
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Will, one thing's for sure, she's a Hell of lot smarter than Neff, who thinks she loves him, and she knows how to work him to get him things he normally wouldn't do ... he doesn't want "in" on the...
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I recently came upon the fact that there was a pilot for a "Double Indemnity" TV series made in the early '60s. It starred Broderick Crawford as Keyes and Jack Kelly as Walter Neff, and the plan...
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Hey, what do you know? The "Double Indemnity" pilot is up on YouTube:
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Great find, Lawrence! Yeah, insurance doesn't make as compelling fodder for a series. No matter how hard Robinson's Keyes tried to convince us of his passion for fraud discovery, it doesn't hold our...
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Lawrence, I don't mean to be pedantic, but that "Double Indemnity" pilot has the SUSPENSE THEATRE credits, but you and the IMDB say it's for MYSTERY THEATRE. Also, it has the Sci-Fi channel logo in...
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Saturday8pm wrote:Yeah, insurance doesn't make as compelling fodder for a series. No matter how hard Robinson's Keyes tried to convince us of his passion for fraud discovery, it doesn't hold our...
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Broderick Crawford had already played an insurance investigator in the series KING OF DIAMONDS. The show is most memorable though for a gag line in the theme song:"When Johnny King breaks a door...
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CapnDunsel wrote:Saturday8pm wrote:Yeah, insurance doesn't make as compelling fodder for a series. No matter how hard Robinson's Keyes tried to convince us of his passion for fraud discovery, it...
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scotpens wrote:CapnDunsel wrote:Saturday8pm wrote:Yeah, insurance doesn't make as compelling fodder for a series. No matter how hard Robinson's Keyes tried to convince us of his passion for fraud...
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LCranston wrote: Lawrence, I don't mean to be pedantic, but that "Double Indemnity" pilot has the SUSPENSE THEATRE credits, but you and the IMDB say it's for MYSTERY THEATRE. Also, it has the Sci-Fi...
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Saturday8pm wrote:Yeah, insurance doesn't make as compelling fodder for a series. I enjoyed this thriller movie alot: ASSIGNMENT TO KILL 1968 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062684/ A private eye is...
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The old radio series. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, about an insurance investigastor, was long running and well done. The problem is that pilot is dull, not insurance investigating inherently is. Their...
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LCranston wrote:Lawrence, I don't mean to be pedantic, but that "Double Indemnity" pilot has the SUSPENSE THEATRE credits, but you and the IMDB say it's for MYSTERY THEATRE. Also, it has the Sci-Fi...
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... seems I shot myself in the foot! Good thing I'm covered. WAIT ... "... not covered: self-inflicted bullet wounds." I dunno how I manage.
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Bill Warren wrote:I think that really all the two stories have in common is that in a murder plot, the central character is a schnook who's bamboozled in the same way. Both movies are good, but...
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