Double Indemnity

From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention

Her versatility made her a star of Hollywood’s golden age, but Stanwyck’s best characters were always fighters who, like herself, had tasted life’s bitterness

Pamela Hutchinson

18, Jan, 2019 @10:57 AM

After The Maltese Falcon: how film noir took flight

Ushering in an uneasy world of femmes fatales and shady sleuths, The Maltese Falcon marked the beginnings of film noir. Seventy-five years on, how can this genre speak to our times?

Phil Hoad

28, Oct, 2016 @2:00 PM

Philip French's classic DVD: Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder's collaboration with Raymond Chandler produced a superb thriller that helped define film noir, writes Philip French

Philip French

28, Jul, 2012 @11:01 PM

This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

The Innkeepers | A Dangerous Method | Double Indemnity | Howl's Moving Castle | King Of New York

Phelim O'Neill

22, Jun, 2012 @11:06 PM

My favourite film: Readers' comments – week six

We round up the finest of your reponses to last week's films – in this case Way Out West, Double Indemnity, Tampopo, Back to the Future and Kes

Guardian Film

12, Dec, 2011 @3:07 PM

My favourite film: Readers' comments – week five

We're picking out your finest responses to our My Favourite Film series, for which Guardian writers have selected the movies they go back to time and again. Here's a roundup of how you responded in week five, when the selections were Dead Poets Society, The Thing, Blow-Up, The 39 Steps, Little Shop of Horrors, Way Out West and Double Indemnity

Guardian film

29, Nov, 2011 @4:37 PM