What a scene. Edward G's "Closer than that" could have been sentimental but he nailed the wry irony and regret so perfectly.

@JGLewis-jn2km

5 жыл бұрын

That's as close as the old grump could get to saying Walter's line (and one the latter repeats in the film, as with his lighting of his boss's cigarette), "I love you too....". They meant the same, though. Wonderful close, I agree.

One of the great endings in cinematic history. It was Walter who was giving Keyes lights throughout the whole film... that is, until the ending.

“Closer than that Walter” Aw keyes

@maxcady6915

3 жыл бұрын

That's one of the best lines of all times.

@williamwingo4740

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxcady6915 Nowadays there would be the temptation to read more into it....

This ending broke my heart. Even though Keyes is not an emotional man, you see how much he truly cared about Walter. The pain of the disappointment is so visceral.

@tikiproductions9875

3 жыл бұрын

Can't say I feel the same. I think every time I watch this, I'm smiling at the end, because I know that I just watched a masterpiece.

@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820

3 жыл бұрын

Somehow having Walter barely clinging to life at the end just makes it hurt worse. He's got no future, no hope, and not even death will take him.

@Warhero1171

2 жыл бұрын

Keyes is emotional, he simply doesn't show it. Walter described him as having a "heart as big as house."

@richspinaci8293

6 ай бұрын

Edward G’s best role ever, and his finest moment here

@roward48

3 ай бұрын

In the novel, after Walter admits he killed Dietrichson (Nirdlinger in the book), Keyes comes into Walter's hospital room with a company lawyer and the president Pacific All Risk, and says "It's a terrible thing you've done, Neff "(Huff in the book). They didn't have the close relationship that Wilder developed in the screenplay.

Billy Wilder himself said that the real love story in the movie was not Walter and Phyllis but Walter and Keyes.

@milliezboston4097

2 жыл бұрын

lol ikr

The reversal of the cigarette lighting is one of the best subtle scenes ever. Whenever the situation merits, I'll slip in a "something like that" as a response with this scene in mind, for some reason that is my favorite line in this movie.

Everyone goes in thinking the love story of the film is between him and Barbara Stanwyck, only to find it’s actually between Neff and Keys.

"Closer than that, Walter." What a great line w/o saying much definition. Billy Wilder was a bomb!!

The final shot is IMO one of the best shots in all of cinema. Incredible imagery, symbolism, acting, music... it has it all. Nothing beats that final shot.

@raymondgermosan5024

3 жыл бұрын

Very true up there with the endings of Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai and many more.

One of the most iconic displays of bromance in Hollywood history.

The great Billy Wilder. Excellent screenwriting. When Robinson says "Closer that that, Walter." The whole movie is set up and all the inner thoughts and feelings are out there. The greatest screen noir ever made outside of Wilder's Sunset Boulevard.

@brookehanley3659

9 жыл бұрын

austin teutsch This is better than Sunset IMO.

@brookehanley3659

8 жыл бұрын

+austin teutsch This is a better story but Sunset is definitely true noir. And it is very good.

@austinteutsch

8 жыл бұрын

+Brooke Hanley Both movie are the epitome of film noir. Wilder is one of the greatest screenwriters in the hisotyr of film. You and I are film lovers of such a genre.

@brookehanley3659

8 жыл бұрын

austin teutsch Love them! The 1940's were a special time for movies. I know Sunset was 1950 :) close enough!

@wrybreadspread

6 жыл бұрын

Brooke Hanley "Better than Sunset Blvd" Hmm. That would make a spirited debate.. Sunset is creepier. This is more understated irony--brilliantly so

If this isn't a bromance, I don't know what is.

@petersurdo4984

4 жыл бұрын

Men can love each other it's okay.

@thewatcher5271

Жыл бұрын

You Want Bromance? Check Out Henry Fonda & Anthony Quinn In 'Warlock'. Bogart & Claude Rains In 'Casablanca' & Rod Taylor & Peter Duel In, 'The Hell With Heroes'!

I think this film is some of the best writing in cinematic history. Movies were meant to suspend reality; to give us something extraordinary. This takes place in the real world, but the characters interact as though they all took speech and debate at an Ivey League school. Movies, today, try too hard to be like the real world. The X factor is missing. Bring back films like this one.

@joeski734

Жыл бұрын

This script is a polished gem. And that's just the words. Edward G. Robinson's monologues alone are a wonder. And of course Stanwyck and MacMurray's repartee. But MacMurray's voice-over is pure poetry. It is the best narration ever put to film in American cinema. Not to mention plotting, pacing, suspense. The script is a masterpiece. Maybe equaled, never to be topped.

@LassonDavid

Жыл бұрын

And get this: the script was written by someone whose first language was not English.

@smoothALOE

Жыл бұрын

@@LassonDavid that’s awesome. Even better. Makes me think of Vladimir Nabokov.

@LassonDavid

Жыл бұрын

@@smoothALOE The comparison is most apt, sir: both writers exhibit an affection for what English can do that we find in our best ESL students.

@smoothALOE

Жыл бұрын

@@LassonDavid I appreciate the info and the compliment. Thank you

One of the best movie endings, and this is probably my favourite film. 'The apartment' is right up there too.

The greatest cigarette commercial of all time!

@nickstevens8596

6 жыл бұрын

John Hein Or at least the greatest match commercial of all time.

@dnasty312

9 ай бұрын

Sadly, Fred's heavy smoking got him in the end

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

9 ай бұрын

​@@dnasty312Wait, ending scenes is missing

You're dying, but before you check out for good, you gotta have a last smoke. It was the Forties.

Walter recovered, changed his name to "Steve Douglas", and raised three sons, successfully hiding his past.

@dnasty312

3 жыл бұрын

Under another alias, he created Flubber 🧪

@fosbury68

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. He moved to NYC, changed his name to "Sheldrake" and was a philandering, abusive a-hole.

Walter: Give it to me straight, Keyes - and no big fancy words. Keyes: Walter, you're all washed up. Walter: Thanks, Keyes. Greatest line I ever heard in a movie.

@JGLewis-jn2km

5 жыл бұрын

You conveyed the meaning. The actual intercourse went closer to this. Walter: "I suppose now I get the big fancy speech, the one with all the two dollar words in it." Keys: "Walter, you're all washed up." Walter: "Thanks, Keys. It was short at least." -- This dialogue occurs immediately prior to the above scene. --

It may be the best ending in all of cinema. This is the first time Edward G lights Fred's cigarette in the whole movie. All through the film it's the other way around. Also, if Walter had just drove to the Mexico without stopping at the office and confessing the whole thing he might have made it. I guess he was too full of guilt to not confess.

@mattsharkey8437

2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Keyes also called his role as a "Insurance Investigator" a "Confessor" earlier in the film.

@alg11297

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattsharkey8437 He also compared himself to a surgeon.

@mattsharkey8437

2 жыл бұрын

@@alg11297 he almost surgically solved the case

@audreydaleski1067

Жыл бұрын

One of the very few.

Double Indemnity... , Sunset Boulevard : Two Billy Wilder’s masterpieces !! The kind of movies they don’t make anymore !! And that’s too bad ...

@williamwingo4740

3 жыл бұрын

Wilder was great. But he also did "The Fortune Cookie" and "Kiss Me, Stupid."

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

9 ай бұрын

​@@williamwingo4740it's the comedy

Twice Billy Wilder pushed Fred Macmurray into 'dark roles' - here and in The Apartment and they are the only two times you get the full range of his possibilities as an actor.

Man, that ending came so full circle! Love this movie!!!

Closer than that, Walter

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, what a fantastic film.

One of my favorite movie scenes, and movie friendships ever.

Best final shot ever.

One of the best endings ever !

I absolutely love this scene. There are only few touching, emotional scenes in film noir, but this is one of them.

Maybe the greatest closing shot in film history

Great ending, I love them both. Great actors, good team. Very tragic, we all make mistakes, we all get to close, I lost a friend to

Both were consummate actors who knew exactly how to stress certain words for maximum effect. Listen for the inflections from Eddie - perfect pitch.

Robinson should have got the oscar for this film but, brilliant character actor that he was , was never nominated in a 50 years screen career. Shameful...

@legend9948

3 жыл бұрын

He was nominated and I believe he won one

@philiphalpenny9761

3 жыл бұрын

@@legend9948 ...only a posthumous award in 1973.

I love this film...it's got everything ...

This was the greatest flim noir crime movie of all time legendary

Fred MacMurray played another creep for Billy Wilder later in "The Apartment".

I've seen this movie at least a dozen times. For some reason, watching it today such sadness came over me with this final scene. MacMurray falling in the doorway as he tries to leave for the elevator is heartbreaking to me on some level. The waste of what could have been a promising life maybe. And of course the pain and disappointment of Edward G. Robinson. Such wonderful chemistry between these actors!!

Thankyou movieclips i find these HD 'snippets' of movies very enjoyable- makes me want to go out and buy the remastered movies for keeps. This one in particular. Cheers.

Great ending. I just finished watching The Stranger with Orson Welles and the last image is Robinson lighting a pipe and saying something witty. It recalled this so I came looking for it.

@gregorykayne6054

7 ай бұрын

Another immortal thriller!

Love that name Walter ...impressive name 😅

I would not be lying if I said I have seen this movie over 300 times

@VK-sp4gv

Жыл бұрын

About 3 times myself, getting there...

This was never a brutally underrated movie to my knowledge whoever said so.

I can't imagine being friends with someone who ONLY talked in hypotheticals constantly, lol.

omg this movie is a masterpiece

Walter is bleeding to death after getting shot, but there is NO BLOOD on his clothes lol

@williamwingo4740

3 жыл бұрын

The dark spot on his shoulder does get larger, but not much.

@steelers6titles

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamwingo4740 right

@josephclift3662

Жыл бұрын

@@steelers6titles there were restrictions on what could be shown

@jonnyqwst

Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing that he didn’t need to put a bucket of blood in we could still see it

You really have to see this next to what Keyes is like in the rest of the film. I think clips four and five, he plays a large part.

U won't even make the elevator lol

See if Walter had just went directly to the border without stopping off at the office and confessing he could have made it. Of course then there would be no movie. The ongoing bit in the movie is that Walter is always lighting Robinson's cigar but this time Edward G does Walter the favor.

I agree wholeheartedly - Try as they might - Hollywood could never replicate a screenplay and acting like they could in the 40's and 50's . . .

"I love you, too." Not something you hear a lot between two men in a movie from the 40s!

"Fred McMurray gets shot and dies in the hallway " Ralph Malph. Happy day's circa, 1976..

1:33 "Yeah...it's a police job." Sometimes, when a man falls in love with a woman, those are the very last words spoken in that relationship.

Uno de los finales más antológicos y sentidos de la historia del cine!

AWESOME.

2001: AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills - #24

U know why u couldn't figure this one out keys ?I'll tell ya because the guy u were looking for was to close to u.

Damn. I wonder how people back in the 1940s felt after seeing this film? It was such a wild ride even now in 2023.

ONE OF THE MOST CLASSIC ENDING EVER

Brutally under-rated movie.

@alvarorojas5515

3 жыл бұрын

Under-rated? This movies is so well known You idiot.

@pajasa62

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvarorojas5515 Always nice to hear the childish name-calling that you get from people behind the safety of the internet. Just because it is popular to YOU, doesn't mean the film has been appreciated on a large scale. In fact, Double Indemnity did NOT win a single Academy Award and Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson weren't even nominated for one.

@randywhite3947

3 жыл бұрын

Um dude this film is considered by many to be one of if not the best film noir ever and one of the best films ever made

@randywhite3947

3 жыл бұрын

@@pajasa62 it’s very much appreciated

@pajasa62

3 жыл бұрын

@@randywhite3947 I am just stating the facts that it did not win a single Academy Award, nor did Fred MacMurray or Edward G. Robinson even get nominated for one. NO ONE HERE is claiming this was not a terrific movie.

Great great film

He had to have that one last Chesterfield.

Masterpiece!

i think the let down of the bromance is heavyer than the murder-so it seems-Keys lost a friend and he seems to have few in the movie-injecture

Youre not smarter Walter just taller

Going to see this movie on Wday :) on TCM cool chl. Frm Amelia

So, it is the cigarettes what killed him

Wished they still made those matches you could light with your thumb. I don't smoke but I'd love to light one of them like they did through the whole movie.

@Chiller-pc1dv

3 жыл бұрын

You mean a lighter? If so, they very much still do make them

@ernestleong476

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chiller-pc1dv They used to make matches you could light by striking against your thumb, just like Neff does throughout this movie, and Keyes does for him in this perfect final scene.

@Chiller-pc1dv

3 жыл бұрын

@@ernestleong476 Oooohh, that sounds kinda painful in my opinion. Cool, but a lil painful, , because it scrapes against your thumb

@ernestleong476

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chiller-pc1dv Watch how Robinson does it in this scene -- nothing to it. ;)

God, they bred men tough back then. Lighting a match with your thumb nail? Urggghhh!

@williamwingo4740

3 жыл бұрын

Check out Jack Lemmon lighting a match on his teeth in "The Great Race."

so does he die on the spot or go to the gas chamber?

@thenostalgiakid1

8 жыл бұрын

+Scotch He dies on the spot in the original ending and goes to the gas chamber in the alternate.

@CutHardstylez

8 жыл бұрын

Tywin Lannister I prefer the first one.

@thenostalgiakid1

8 жыл бұрын

Scotch Who doesn't?

@johnhein2539

8 жыл бұрын

I too like to think the only toxins Walter inhales are the ones in his cigarette lit by his friend by his side.

@GHLIII

8 жыл бұрын

+Scotch He's obviously alive as the film closes. It seems to me that the story unfolds afterwards as MacMurray thinks -- they patch him up, get him back on his feet, and he walks into the gas chamber under his own power.

Like the last 3 seconds of the film. I've seen the whole thing, hes overreacting really.