TCM Party 'Summer of Darkness' screens Double Indemnity
TCM Party screened Double Indemnity (1944) as part of its noir series Summer of Darkness and hosted live watch-along posts during the showing. Posts quoted a 1944 Barbara Stanwyck interview in which Stanwyck said the Production Code raised no objections because the story proves "crime doesn't pay." The Summer of Darkness slate also included Detour and The Maltese Falcon, with posts spelling out each protagonist's grim outcome: Double Indemnity's couple gets neither the money nor the woman, Detour's narrator meets ruin, and The Maltese Falcon leaves its lead with heartbreak. The event matters because it spotlights classic noir themes and Production Code-era filmmaking, making the films useful viewing for anyone studying narrative consequence, cinematography, and genre craft.