'Double Indemnity' A Film of Cleverness

BILLY WILDER was a film director of genius.  His fiery 1944 film, 'Double Indemnity' wows me in a tremendous sense of dramatic excitement.  This weird noir story focuses on bizarre dealings of a mean woman trying to run a scheme to get rid of old hubby and make the big bucks.  Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray bring this film roaring to life.  The vile ugliness of the yuck wife sickens and yet even though there is so much seduction and raw seductive balderdash (pointed at poor Fred McMurray) going on, still the story is crafty and on so many levels a saga of how gross females and pathetic males can be with each other.  Criminal activity is often loaded with horror and in many ways this cinematic tale of a female psychopath or sociopath is full of the turgid meanderings of a berserk soul who lacks empathy or care toward other souls and the point is that this woman will just about stop at nothing to get what she wants.