Unit+7+Films

=Unit 7 Films=


 * Double Indemnity**(1944) **-** An American film noir that was released in 1944 directed by Billy Wilder. Double Indemnity stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a housewives who wants her husband killed, and Edward Robinson as a claim adjuster who tries to find false insurance claims. Walter Neff,Fred MacMurray, finds himself in a dilemma of murder, insurance fraud, and affairs. Nevertheless, Double Indemnity is regarded as a classic and was nominated for seven Oscars, but didn't win any. Double Indemnity set the standards for film noir that followed it after its release. The theme of this movie was to show that lying gets nowhere and the that the trust will reveal itself eventually as time progresses.

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy,Humphrey Bogart, gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
 * Dead Reckoning(**1947) **-** Directed by John Cromwell and starring Humphrey Bogart. From IMDB:


 * Citizen Kane**(1941) - directed by and starring Orson Welles(who was 25 at the time), it is considered one of the greatest films of all time, and was one of the very first films to actually show the ceiling of a room. Orson Welles used many new creative techniques in this film, including the technique where the movie began at the end of the movie and used shadow and spacing between the characters too. Welles also helped produce and wirte the film as well. This film included the early use of special effects; for example, the makeup team would transform Welles into an old man one day and a young one the next. Welles was able to play Citzen Kane throughout most of the movie because of this.


 * The Maltese Falcon**(1941) **-** Directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart. From IMDB: "A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. "It's the stuff that dreams are made of". Based off the novel by Dashiell Hammett.


 * Sunset Boulevard**(1950) **-** This film was directed by Billy Wilder and starrs William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, and Nancy Olson. It is a 1950 American film noir that is named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. The Sunset Boulevard is about Joe flashbacking to his story of becoming a former silent film star's kept man and the events leading up to his own murder. it analyzes the psychosis of a lonely movie star and how she becomes crazy and ends up killing the man she loves.