Billy Wilder: Alternate Ending For DOUBLE INDEMNITY

Billy Wilder talks about shooting multiple endings for films at the AFI Harold Lloyd Master Seminar in 1976.
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[@Transcendfinejewelleryonline]

I'm glad the ending went the way it did., it was perfect. Right up there on the list as one of the best endings in films ever.

[@opentrunk]

Double Indemnity is the greatest movie ever made. Sunset Blvd is in the top 5 all time. That alone makes Billy Wilder the greatest director in history.

[@MothGirl007]

Not to mention 'Some Like It Hot" - Wilder was brilliant.

[@ignatiusjackson235]

The Apartment, Sabrina, Witness for the Prosecution...

[@fruzsimih7214]

Such a beautiful, warm-hearted ending for such a cold, ruthless story!

[@MrResearcher122]

Raymond Chandler's brilliance is all over the script. Philosophical monologues of Keyes is all Chandler, the wisecracks of Neff, the calm brutality of Dietrichrson- all the work of the Public School educated Irish American. But what a cast! Eddy G and Barbara Stanwyck alone make films magic.

[@vriteshjalim3744]

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[@TheSaltydog07]

Jack, who came up with "How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?"

[@MrResearcher122]

@@TheSaltydog07 That sounds like a Chandler line. Much of Chandler is witty like Oscar Wild, or Mae West,two other notorious word smiths of Irish heritage.

[@postscript67]

@@MrResearcher122 It is interesting that Chandler and P G Wodehouse attended the same school, Dulwich College, within a few years of each other. I wonder if they had the same English teacher. There are certainly similarities in their style, though not genre. For example you could imagine Wodehouse writing "It was a blonde, a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window", or Chandler producing "She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season" instead of the other way round.

[@MrResearcher122]

@@postscript67 Wonderful observation:). Chandler, despite his weakness for the lowlife, was from the old Anglo-Irish elite, with butlers in toe in rural Ireland. He had a very close literary friendship with the Old Eatonian, Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels. As to Duwlich College, it does throw up a few odd types now and then, Nigel Farage of UKIP being one recent example. He too has the gift of the gab and a talent for making ordinary flats seem like mansions.

[@guepardiez]

He was one of the best screenwriters ever despite not writing in his native language. Legend.

[@kdizzle901]

And directors

[@billthestinker]

Brilliant director!

[@wendyduehr8086]

He chose the perfect ending to a perfect movie. I just watched it again last night.

[@StaffordChristensen]

I'm glad the movie ended where it did.

[@PaulGoodeK]

It’s a great ending-one of the best.

[@stephenstephen1505]

A great director

[@freddylubin]

Only a great artist, with a strong sense of purpose, can give up on a scene, knowing it doesn't work. Many of my film students struggle with me when I suggest the remove a scene, often a very good one, but one which doesn't work. I'd like to see the alternative OPENING of "Sunset Blvd", with the chatting coprses at the morgue.

[@sherryrobinson7389]

Aw heck no! Fishing him out of pool was odd, but later when he said they were harpooning him out like a baby seal ! I died! 😀😀😀😀😆😆😆😆😄😄😄😄😄😆! BTW. I'm going to play this movie for my neighbors, they never saw it! + I bought 3 copies at a 2nd hand store, incase they broke, the movie is soooooo funny+ good + excellent! 😀😀😀😀 and perhaps by having that introduction, you may think it will just be a regular flat movie! Lol

[@sherryrobinson7389]

Oopsa= watching the movie tonight that is! Come on over gang!

[@IoEstasCedonta]

Also, didn't "Some Like It Hot" originally end "I know"? Apparently, he used that hoping that it would get the actual line past the Hays office, but when the film wound up having to be released unapproved, he decided the actual line was funnier. I also know the novel of "The Lost Weekend" ended with Don, after all that, finding another bottle and starting in on it, but I don't think Wilder filmed that.

[@jeanesingsjazz]

I always thought that Walter Neff died from his bullet wound, escaping corporal punishment.

[@harmonium8198]

The original ending being set in the gas chamber, not to mention the multiple references in the script to the final destination for Walter and Phyllis being "the cemetery," indicates that Walter would have faced a sentence of capital, not corporal, punishment.

[@femmefatalecultclassics]

Omg

[@sherryrobinson7389]

Sunset Boulevard.

[@DenkyManner]

There are 2 photographs depicting the gas chamber ending. It looked extremely grim. It's a dark movie already but I wonder if that would have made it actually unpleasant and disturbing.

[@MothGirl007]

I think it would have totally been overkill.

[@normadesmond6017]

when you want to know everyting about movie techniques you watch Hitchocock. When you want to know about human behavior you watch Wilder.

[@kevinastraw]

Hello! Is there anyone intelligent and knowledgeable out there who wants to comment on this piece?

[@TheSaltydog07]

In the book Spoiler alert Walter and Phyllis jump from a ship, on which they had hoped to escape, into shark infested water. Billy Wilder is a genius.

[@farazahmed-d9p1]

Why is Pablo Escobar in a film class?

[@LongliveSnak2e]

@macflyfilm HE WAS JEWISH. JEWISH>>>>>

[@princeandrey]

So were many of the 1940's noir directors. The Jews are a talented group of people whom ignorant people too often stigmatize.

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