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Double Indemnity (1973)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 9/13

9/13: Richard Crenna sure mailed it in during the first fifteen minutes of the unnecessary remake of Double Indemnity.

Remember in the original that there was a fun repartee between Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in regard to the speeding limit? The replaced leads were about to embark on it, and then Richard's character gave up after one line, abruptly ending the scene. Huh...some fucking effort.

Samantha Eggar is hideously ugly for a femme fatale, eliciting no favorable response from me. Only the interior design of the apartment is worse. A couple of changes are made to the script which is 98% carbon copied from the original: the doorknob turns to the right instead of left and it's July, not November.

All in all, the 1973 version of Double Indemnity is the biggest mistake of everybody's career; what the hell were they thinking?

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