Word: dietrichson
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Professor Kaplan, Philosopher of Art, turned his departmental sign upside down for sesthetic effect. Professor Dietrichson, who teachers existentialism, thought the gesture a comment on the plight of modern philosophy...
...concerns a life insurance salesman, Walter Neff, played by MacMurray, who sees a chance to beat his own company, get rich quick, and marry a beautiful woman--and all for the simple price of murder. This opportunity is presented to Neff by one of his clients, a Mrs. Dietrichson (Miss Stanwyck), who wants to buy life insurance for her husband and then make certain that it gets used pronto. The wily Miss Dietrichson uses Neff to get rid of her spouse in a railroad "accident" that pays her double indemnity as the beneficiary...
Suspense is what could have made this picture a great one, and a lack of it is just what makes "Double Indemnity" a distinctly mediocre film. At the very start one learns the eventual outcome from the rather clumsy method of having Neff, wounded by a bullet from Mrs. Dietrichson's gun, dictate the whole tale to a dictaphone. This flashback technique under the hands of an expert might have been fashioned into a really good flesh-creeper, but instead it merely produces a rather average film with emphasis on plot...
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