Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
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This review of Double Indemnity (1944) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 17 Mar 1985.
Double Indemnity has generally received very positive reviews.
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