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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

This week, a special crossover episode with The Movie Palace Podcast, a film podcast hosted by Carl Sweeney taking a look at the classics of Hollywood’s golden age. Carl suggested a crossover episode taking a look at the list, and particularly some of the classic movies listed on it.

So this week, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity.

Regarded as one of the earliest codifiers of film noir and one of the strongest examples of the form, Double Indemnity is the tale of door-to-door insurance salesman Walter Neff. Through chance, Neff wanders into the life of a young wife by the name of Phyllis Dietrichson. When they get together, it’s murder.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 88th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 22nd September 2018.
• A special podcast episode recorded with Carl. He was a very gracious host.
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• Listen to Darren’s appearance on The Movie Palace Podcast, discussing Gilda.
• Follow Carl on Twitter.
• Adam Frost at the British Film Institute recognises Double Indemnity as the “most” film noir of films, November 2016.
• Roger Ebert discusses Double Indemnity as a great movie at RogerEbert.com, December 1998.
• Philip French writes an obituary for Billy Wilder at The Observer, March 2002.
• Roger Ebert writes an obituary for Billy Wilder for The Chicago-Sun Times, March 2002.
• Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club discusses that first flirtatious meeting between the leads in Double Indemnity, August 2009.
• Glenn Kenny discusses Barbara Stanwyck’s anklet in Double Indemnity at RogerEbert.com, October 2013.
• Maureen Corrigan discusses the Ruth Snyder case at NPR, June 2011.
• Ryan Reft at Kcet on how film noir reflected mid-century American uncertainties, February 2017.
• Christopher Michael Fanning on class in film noir, especially Double Indemnity, Spring 2011.
• Ethan Hawke talks to Newsweek about his appreciation of Nicolas Cage as an actor, September 2018.
• Mike Detective on Earwolf, March 2011.
• The Onion reports on the real sexuality of Bert and Ernie, July 2013.
• Jake Port explains how safety matches work at Cosmos Magazine, April 2016.
• Esther Inglis-Arkell discusses the history of matches at io9, June 2015.
• Curtis Mekemson and Stanton Glantz at the British Medical Journal on the relationship between Hollywood and tobacco companies, March 2002.
• Jeff Ihaza at The Outline on the increasing depiction of smoking in modern movies, July 2017.
• Christopher Hooton at The Independent on what actors actually smoke in films, February 2016.
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