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"Double Indemnity:" Fred McMurray, who would become famous years later

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for his roles as a kindly father/uncle-type, here plays a heel who seems unable to face the truth about himself, with disastrous results.
As good as he is (and he should have gotten an Oscar nod for this role; he's dynamite in a role some would have said Bogart had all to himself), he's matched by a sizzling performance by Barbara Stanwyck. She also is mostly remembered by boomers for her TV and later Hollywood roles, a tough Mama or a kindly older woman. But, at one time, this true-life up-from-the-gutter woman was as sexy, intelligent, and explosive as her more famous rival, Bette Davis.
From her first scene, half naked behind a towel dangerously draped about her, she mesmerizes and tantalizes the poor McMurray. Like him, we're irresistibly drawn to the flames.

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