Double Indemnity (Blu-Ray, #1126) Squid's Favorites Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett

Moving into a creepy apartment formerly occupied by an old psychic

And with the local authorities dismissing him as a crackpot

• Audio essay by author & critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Double Indemnity (Blu-Ray, #1126) Squid's Favorites Buddy HackettHas dialogue ever been more perfectly hard boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A list with this epitome of film noir fatalism from James M. Cains pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied