Film Saturdays: Billy Wilder Double
Date & Time
Join us to watch Billy Wilders’ famous films Double Indemnity and Some Like it Hot, introduced by SMSA member, Peter Rainey.
Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed & written by Billy Wilder. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | 1 hr 47 min
Synopsis:
Walter Neff (MacMurray) is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All-Risk returning to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Neff, clearly in pain, sits down at his desk and tells the whole story into a Dictaphone for his colleague Barton Keyes (Robinson), a claims adjuster.
It is the story of how he meets the sultry Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) during a routine house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. A flirtation develops, at least until Neff hears Phyllis wonder how she could take out a policy on her husband’s life without him knowing it. Neff knows she means murder. (Wikipedia)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Directed & written by Billy Wilder. Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
Comedy | Romance | Music | 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis:
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band’s sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Film Introduction & Closing Remarks
The screening will include an introduction and closing remarks by SMSA member, Peter Rainey.
Event program:
11am – Double Indemnity
1:45pm – Some Like It Hot
Image credit: IMDb