When did TCM air the 1944 film noir classic “Double Indemnity”?”
June 13 10:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944) An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC Cold-blooded, brutal, highly stylized, and informed with a black sense of humor, Double Indemnity is one of the high points of 1940s filmmaking and a prime example of a genre and style that remains highly influential in its look, attitude and storyline.
Joe Buoncore of Florida, a man of a few, well chosen words, (concealing a mischievous sense of humor and an encyclopedic knowledge about the most famous and the forgotten filmmakers), will be introducing the seminal, sinfully entertaining Billy Wilder film noir, Double Indemnity (1944) on Wednesday, April 15th. Joe described himself with characteristic brevity as “being about 8 or 9 when I got into the groove [of the movies of the] 1940s & 1950s.” Like many of his contemporaries, Joe “enjoyed horror films from Universal and Abbott & Costello at the time.” His later favorites “were Doris Day, Jeff Chandler, Maureen O’Hara, Tyrone Power, Shelley Winters, etc.” After Joe’s discovery of “film noir and Barbara Stanwyck” there was no going back. A classic film fan for life had been born, and, as anyone who has ever enjoyed one of Joe’s appreciations of the great and the forgotten on the TCM website, his choice of one of “Babs” Stanwyck’s best films is quite apt. Joe, who said that the “list
“Double Indemnity” is a film that is both technically and emotionally engaging, a character-driven story that is suspenseful, romantic, and dramatic all at once. Don’t miss it when it airs on Turner Classic Movies this Saturday, June 13, at 9:15 PM central standard time, as part of TCM’s spotlight on great directors.
