Raymond Burr

Those familiar with Billy Wilder’s iconic noir Double Indemnity may find the opening minutes of directorPlease-Murder-Me-1 Peter Godfrey’s Please Murder Me a bit too similar. In the annals of film history, more than once have filmmakers tapped into previous works to put their own stamp on the material. As of the picture’s subsequent scene, most of the similarities end however.

Desperate Directed by Anthony Mann Screenplay by Harry Essex U.S.A., 1947 One of film noir’s strongest, most unique qualities is its malleability. A film which fans and scholars deem as part of the genre need not be especially violent, nor especially thrilling, nor especially long, nor especially short, etc. Despite that so many take pleasure …