What is Double Indemnity / The Bitter Tea of General Yen about?

DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944, Universal, 107 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, the sardonic insurance salesman who is willingly seduced by slinky Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) into murdering her newly insured husband. Edward G. Robinson is Neff’s colleague, who smells a rat when Phyllis’ hubby has a fatal "accident," qualifying the femme fatale for a lucrative double-indemnity payout. One of the greatest noirs ever made. THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, 1933, Sony Repertory, 88 min. One of Frank Capra’s greatest films, this complex love story between an American missionary (Barbara Stanwyck) and her Chinese captor (Nils Asther) is a haunting masterpiece. Subtle and deeply mysterious, it presents Stanwyck at her best and Capra at his most provocative, with an interracial romance that is both moving and challenging.

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What is Double Indemnity / The Bitter Tea of General Yen about?: DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944, Universal, 107 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, the sardonic insurance salesman who is willingly seduced by slinky Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) into murdering her newly insured husband. Edward G. Robinson is Neff’s colleague, who smells a rat when Phyllis’ hubby has a fatal "accident," qualifying the femme fatale for a lucrative double-indemnity payout. One of the greatest noirs ever made.
THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, 1933, Sony Repertory, 88 min. One of Frank Capra’s greatest films, this complex love story between an American missionary (Barbara Stanwyck) and her Chinese captor (Nils Asther) is a haunting masterpiece. Subtle and deeply mysterious, it presents Stanwyck at her best and Capra at his most provocative, with an interracial romance that is both moving and challenging.