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...season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...
Insurance Salesman MacMurray first visits Miss Stanwyck's dreary suburban Los Angeles chalet to sell her husband a policy, not to murder him. But leggy Miss Stanwyck is already dreaming of homicide and a gay widowhood financed by her husband's insurance money. In a trice infatuated Salesman MacMurray lends a hand. He tricks her husband into signing up for an accident policy which guarantees his widow double indemnity. Together they murder him and make the murder look like a fall from a moving train. After the crime comes retribution in the form of Edward G. Robinson...
...circus high-wire walker (Charles Boyer) dreams of falling from his wire toward a girl he has never seen. He meets the dream girl (Barbara Stanwyck), falls for her harder than the dream foretold...
...beginning of "The Great Man's Lady," Barbara Stanwyck is supposed to be eighteen years old. By the time the film is over, she has reached the ripe old age of one hundred and two. This probably sets some sort of Hollywood record for long-drawn-out bores, and it's a fifty-fifty chance you'll feel as old as Miss Stanwyck looks when, and if, you've sat through...
Brent is Brent and Stanwyck is always the same, but Geraldine Fitzgerald steals the show as a sensation-seeking British Lady. She wears a monocle and vamps her younger sister's fiance so convincingly that you envy him. The rest of the cast is made up of Gene Lockhart, Donald Crisp and similar prototypes...