Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Double Indemnity James M. Cain ebook
Page: 128
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679723226
Format: pdf

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. For a crime as serious as murder, one would expect a conglomerate of scenes and characters involving the police. Double Indemnity, Nathaniel's pick for Hit Me this week, was made by the great Billy Wilder, an Austrian immigrant whose outsider-within is visible throughout the film. Dear God, what an incredibly snappy screenplay. Part of the Hit Me With Your Best Shot series at The Film Experience. Double Indemnity is a savvy thriller from the good old noir days of cinema. More than anything else, DOUBLE INDEMNITY's major triumph is in its writing. The 1944 film noir Double Indemnity strikes strongly in the principle of ethics. I've seen Double Indemnity several times in the past, and now that I'm delving into it again, I've fallen in love with it all over again. Watched this tonight with my fifteen-year-old. I finally saw Double Indemnity, which I should have seen long ago. Httpv://youtu.be/vN9THMXxndw Philip Marlowe's creator Raymond Chandler did not, to put it mildly, seek out the limelight. The movie is based on a brilliant novella by James M. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. I was born 50 years after the days of noir in cinema but i have always like the dark mysterious setting that they have always had. Double Indemnity is a bit different though. Walter Neff dunnit, that's who. Part of TCM's series on Oscar winners and nominees. I've always considered Double Indemnity a rather ugly film. Double Indemnity is the perfect mix of talents that combined to create one of the best films of all time.