double indemnity
Double Indemnity (1944) is director Billy Wilder’s classic film noir masterpiece - a cynical, witty, and sleazy thriller about adultery, corruption and murder. [1]
View company contact information for Double Indemnity on IMDbPro. [2]
Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of 1940s film noir urban crime dramas in which a greedy, weak man is seduced and trapped by a cold, evil woman amidst the dark shadows and Expressionist lighting of modern cities. [3]
“DOUBLE INDEMNITY” Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler Based on the novel “Double Indemnity In Three Of A Kind” by James M. Cain CHARACTERS WALTER NEFF PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON BARTON KEYES LOLA DIETRICHSON MR. [4]
A term of an insurance policy by which the insurance company promises to pay the insured or the beneficiary twice the amount of coverage if loss occurs due to a particular cause or set of circumstances. [5]
Including posters, Academy Awards history, film genres, film terms, film history by decade, trivia, and lots of lists of ‘best’ films, stars, scenes, quotes, resources, etc. [1]
Double indemnity is a clause or provision in a life insurance or accident policy whereby the company agrees to pay the stated multiple (e.g. double) of the face amount in the contract in cases of accidental death. [6]
Both are duplicitous and callous lovers - a beautiful, shrewd, predatory and dissatisfied femme fatale housewife (with blonde bangs and an enticing gold anklet) and a likeable insurance salesman. [1]
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator’s suspicions. [2]
Immediately after his confession, Neff explains how he became involved with Los Angeles housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a conniving, seductive, icy blonde bombshell. [1]
Walter Neff (MacMurray) is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All-Risk returning to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. [7]
Emerging from the car, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) enters an office building, moving in a way which makes it appear that he is pained and that there is something wrong with his shoulder. [1]
Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, an unsuspecting insurance salesman. [2]
Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend, Judd Gray, to kill her husband Albert after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy ‘ with a double-indemnity clause. [7]
Movie veterans Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson give some of their best performances, and Wilder’s cynical sensibility finds a perfect match in the story’s unsentimental perspective, heightened by John Seitz’s hard-edged cinematography. [3]
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[1] Greatest Films: Double Indemnity (1944)
[2] Double Indemnity (1944) - IMDb
[3] Double Indemnity - Blockbuster Online
[4] Double Indemnity
[5] double indemnity: West’s Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article …
[6] Double indemnity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] Double Indemnity (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia