22. Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is arguably the best film noir picture ever made. It is beautifully filmed and has an incredibly clever script that portrays a woman enlisting her insurance agent’s help in murdering her husband for insurance money. Alfred Hitchcock praised the film, stating that the writer/director Billy Wilder’s name had become the two most important words in filmmaking. The film was nominated for seven awards but lost all of them. The primary winner of the year was Going My Way, a forgettable musical comedy featuring Bing Crosby.
