double indemnity innuendo

[TheSnowdropFan]

I love film noir.I have´t seen this one,yet I shamfully admit.

[nickstoli]

Fred MacMurray... one of the most underrated actors ever. 

[amarvirbilkhu]

Brilliant dialogue.

Keeps the viewer engaged, and thrilled as much they are in their flirting!!

[SPTAH]

Body language, eye-contact, metaphor and double entendre, subtle but sexually charged. This is master film-making.

[LazlosPlane]

This was when broads could take care of themselves, weren't afraid to slap a guy when he deserved it, instead of relying on politically correct laws.

[rixxable]

your theory is correct

[deutschland08fn]

This screams 1940's

[Cocoa3069]

We love this movie. Would of like to have met barbara

[untergeek]

"I wonder if you wonder." How nice to see another, darker, non-Three-Sons Fred McMurray. Thanks.

[catra195]

fast talking high trousers

[bewarethelizards42]

Love, love this film. The 'I wonder if you wonder..' line is brilliant, a classic.

[boiledcrap]

OMG STOP THE METAPHOR!!!! XDDDD They don't make 'em like this anymore

[joeblowthehot]

@boiledcrap I know... and aint it a shame!!!

[IndianaDylan]

Can somebody please explain how this is sexual? Call me unrefined (or perhaps less perverted) but I'm having a hard time reading in-between the lines here. And before anybody asks, I'm 19.

[xnotxthatxinnocentx]

@IndianaDylan I wouldn't say it's sexual, it's more him trying to be flirty and push his luck with her and she's not taking it.

[bmacphee1]

@IndianaDylan Hun, this is sexual. Your problem is that you're 19. Well, no, it isn't really a problem! LOL

[49bobbyk]

Fred McMurray was a real leading man. I was surprised to find out that when several Hollywood actors were asked who was the richest person in Hollywood they all said Fred McMurray.

[samjonze]

Check it out at 0:36 - while his back is turned he unzips and zips his briefcase. Brilliant.

[justeffingworkplz]

@samjonze i dont get it...what's so significant about that?

[bogohoboho]

i wonder if you wonder...

[oranger2525]

@bogohoboho yeah. talk about a great comeback. perfect.

[Brian54M]

She said that her husband was neglecting her!

Was he blind!!

[ex1le444]

she could whack me over the knuckles anyday!

[spottydog4477]

Stanwyck - they dont make chics like this anymore

[ex1le444]

you're not kidding! What a babe!

[yaronimus1]

genious script. thanks for sharing!

[TheCanine2]

There's no better scene in all of noir!! That dialogue is a big part of what the genre is all about!

And in my own biased, opinionated mind, it validates a theory of mine: namely that the censors, quite unintentionally, helped create the feel of noir! They didn't allow overtly sexual talk or bedroom scenes, so the filmmakers (in the better movies) developed the double entendre into an art form. You just don't see it done to that level in modern movies. See "Detour" for another example.

[juanitochimpo]

I like your theory!

[infokemp]

In any modern version of a film noir I would definately use double entendre by means of a male character & female finding away to communicate via reference to those movies, i.e with their unwitting better halfs siting right their next to them, their by the audience gets it but the post-modern wife of the male protagonist & the husband of the female protagonist sit there (like sitting ducks, as Film noir requires that their are dupes & mugs to be killed off) whilst the two potential adulters plan

[infokemp]

Continued - This would demonstrate the immoral paranoia & sophistication of the two characters only speaking to each other & plotting against their respective better halfs through Film Noir dialouge whilst the cosmopolitan post-modern husband & wife of each plotter respectively seam in that post-modern kidult vulnerability; having a I-pod does not necessarily make you sophisticated.

(there I have the plot for my next short story)

Jeff Bridges & Uma Thurman as the protagonists yes that the cast.

[TheCanine2]

@infokemp  Best of luck on your short story!

BTW, I liked your uploads in your archive.

[billthestinker]

Fred is bi-sexual in this movie, don't forget he loves Edward G Robinson's "little man"

[hebneh]

Barbara acts put-out and mildly offended here, but she's already got her brain going on a way to use Fred to her advantage. This dame's not dumb. She's just playing with Fred, and she'll get him just exactly where she wants him. And he won't even know she's doing it to him, either. Not till the very end.

[hockeygirl727]

best scene ever man. i watched this movie with some friends once and this part just got the best of us. hilarious.

[MCMOOGIE]

I am so glad I found this. Someone mentioned Stanwyck & I thought i'd take a chance. I've told people about this scene and they always say "Sounds really corny!" which of course it is. I LOVE it!

[AntoinePancakes]

Wow. The "My Three Sons" Dad a player!

[mdumas43073]

Much of the snappy dialogue in this film can be attributed to Raymond Chandler, better known for his Philip Marlowe novels ("The Big Sleep", "Farewell, My Lovely", etc.).

[javierernestez]

The movie is superb, of course. But i think that it is quite atipical in Wilder´s career. All the characteristics of his cinema don´t appear hear.

[FirmlyHanded]

Different class.

[dibelonious]

Bravíssimo!

[emster93]

That was absolute genious! They pulled it off so well and you can't find anything so hidden and yet, so "electric" anymore. Loved it!

[deibid2003]

I found a link to watch this great great movie online:

blogger-films.blogspot. com/2008/11/double-indemnity.h­tml

[samothraki1]

....she's playing dumb and he knows it.

[samothraki1]

"I wonder if you wonder....?"

[has9]

exactly, i never knew what that meant. obviously he didn't mean she's dumb or did he ?

[grabit1]

If he thought she was dumb, he found out otherwise later.

[virtualstrangers60]

The best line ever.

[OneoftheImmortals]

GayCarrington is now featuring, on her YT Channel, her lost screentest with Fred MacMurray doing this very scene.

[thegoldenera]

Great movie. Love it. Thanks.

[ANCIENTMYS]

Why would any young single guy in his right mind,making a decent income, commit a murder to gain the affections of Barbara Stanwick ?????? I'm not white so can anyone please explain to me her sex appeal?

[Mollweidekadet]

One of the finest films I have ever seen.

[stellalumas]

This is the best part of the movie for me. Their timing and deliverance. The feel, the look, the best.

[170672346]

"There's a speed limit in this state.....!" Brilliant film, thanks for posting.

[rwa04]

supopose i bust in your face

[spitfirefreak540]

lmao!

[Leanne60]

bodda bing, bodda boong, love the banter, the best part of this movie to me. "i wonder if i know what you mean!," "i wonder if you wonder"

[Yarb40]

Easily one of the greatest movies ever.

[judithhr]

I wonder if you wonder.

One of my favorite lines in a movie ever! Thanks for posting. They don't write dialog like this anymore.

[guitarboy22j]

They don't do anything like this cinematically anymore.

[locobuick]

I wonder if you wonder!

[multuminparvo]

Do you have the part where Edward G Robinson is talking about the actuaries? THAT is my favorite bit. : )

[FoxyMeglet]

My favorite lines in the whole movie!

[hersilentface]

sweet! haha innuendo in old films is great, especially in film noir.

[flozinha]

Magic. Thanks.