Double Indemnity:
Late one night, successful insurance salesman Walter Neff breaks into his office building in Los Angeles. Bleeding and in pain, he begins to recite his story into a Dictaphone for his colleague Barton Keyes to find the next morning. We learn how Walter began an affair with the captivating Phyllis Dietrichson and it isn’t long before she convinces him to help her murder her husband, Mr. Dietrichson, in order to collect his life insurance money. The trouble is, the murder must look like an accident in order for them to collect on his insurance’s double indemnity clause. The murder is done sloppily and it isn’t long before the authorities are on his trail. Is it possible that he was betrayed? As more details come to light, it becomes evident that Phyllis isn’t who she claims she is.
Sunset Boulevade:
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
Sweet Smell of Success:
The film transforms New York City into a dystopia soaked with jazz, smoke, and criminals. We follow Sidney Falco, a press agent without the burdens of morality. He is hired by J.J. Hunsecker, New York’s premier newspaper columnist, to stop his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a fresh, young jazz guitarist. So, Sidney plants some reefer on him and spreads rumors that he is a Communist. Things work at first and the relationship is destroyed.
But that isn’t the end for Sidney- he is summoned to Hunsecker’s penthouse only to find the sister attempting suicide. Hunsecker walks in on Sidney saving her and accuses him of rape. From there, fates are decided and lives are destroyed as the truth comes out. In this powerful film, nobody is innocent.
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