at7:00 PM • Introduction by Mystery Author Peter Swanson
INTRODUCTION BY MYSTERY AUTHOR PETER SWANSON
Double Feature with DIABOLIQUE (4:30, 9:30)
1944 • dir Billy Wilder w/Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson • 107 min • 35mm
An insurance salesman (MacMurray) is seduced by a beautiful woman (Stanwyck) into assisting in her brutish husband’s murder. The plan goes off seemingly without a hitch but desperation sets in when an insurance investigator (Robinson) starts nosing around.
“The film is a brilliant collision of evil and the mundane, and one of the reasons viewers respond to it so well is that it makes the mundane seem a little sexier in the resulting debris.”
– Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
“The gold standard of ’40s noir, straight down the line.”
– Jessica Winter, Time Out
“This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-’40s shopper’s catalogue for noiristes…”
– Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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Eight Perfect (Films About) Murders • Repertory Series Archive
Double Indemnity
INTRODUCTION BY MYSTERY AUTHOR PETER SWANSON
Double Feature with DIABOLIQUE (4:30, 9:30)
1944 • dir Billy Wilder w/Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson • 107 min • 35mm
An insurance salesman (MacMurray) is seduced by a beautiful woman (Stanwyck) into assisting in her brutish husband’s murder. The plan goes off seemingly without a hitch but desperation sets in when an insurance investigator (Robinson) starts nosing around.