Director Thor Gold's Double Trouble is a gorgeous homage to Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir classic, Double Indemnity.  Shot in black and white (of course!) on Super 16 mm, Gold's Double Trouble is a valentine to movie noir and Gold is meticulous in recreating the look and feel of Wilder's classic, arguably the finest of all American noirs.  It's not just Thor's adaptation of the original script by Wilder and Raymond Chandler (from a James M. Cain story) that make his movie a winner, it's the camera movement, the shot composition (particularly Gold's awareness of how the costumes, sets and settings influence the B&W photography), the editing and the music that gives Gold's revision such splendor.  Gold's film is so on the money that it is shown as part of a class on film noir at the University of California-Santa Barbara.  Gold's version stars Tucia Lyman and Matt Lowe as Phyllis Dietrichson and Walter Neff. (8 mins 4 secs)

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