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Did Billy Wilder see this?

posted 10 years ago by jarnoldfan
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The opening of the film (Susan emerging from the fog) was "aped" (sorry) three years later in DOUBLE INDEMNITY (the man on crutches)-made by the same studio (Paramount). Also, Skipper the dog resembled Zero, Bogart's dog in Warner Brothers' HIGH SIERRA.

[–] telegonus 10 years ago

Wilder probably did see this one. He was with Paramount back then, and in 1945 he used Phillip Terry to again play a loyal brother, this time in The Lost Weekend, only now it's Ray Milland who goes ape (sort of).