Saturday, March 12, 2011

Game, Set and Matchless



The scheme salesman Walter Neff hatches
has come with a couple of catches:
A blonde femme fatale
and a boss on their trail
Poor Walter will run out of matches



Edward G. Robinson and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944).

2 comments:

  1. A scene showing Walter at last
    Walking up the green mile to be gassed
    Was cut after previews
    So the filmmakers leave you
    With something both moving and fast.

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  2. Y'now, David, with that alternate ending and Bill Holden sitting up in the morgue in Sunset Boulevard,, you have to wonder about that Wilder guy.

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