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    Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted...
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  • 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, triple)...
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  • up double indemnity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double indemnity is a clause or provision in a life insurance or accident policy. Double indemnity...
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  • Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in Liberty magazine in 1936 as an eight...
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    In contract law, an indemnity is a contractual obligation of one party (the indemnitor) to compensate the loss incurred by another party (the indemnitee)...
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    Miklós Rózsa (Double Indemnity, The Killers, Criss Cross), and Franz Waxman (Fury, Sunset Boulevard, Night and the City). Double Indemnity is a seminal...
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  • Double Indemnity is a 1973 American made-for-television crime film directed by Jack Smight and starring Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber and...
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    American crime fiction. His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941) and The Butterfly (1947)...
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    nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director with the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), based on the novel by James M. Cain with a screenplay by Wilder...
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    United States. She starred with Fred MacMurray in the seminal film noir Double Indemnity (1944), playing the wife who persuades an insurance salesman to kill...
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    the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role) in the 1944 film Double Indemnity. This character is considered one of the best femme fatale roles in...
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    in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder's film noir Double Indemnity. From 1959 to 1973, MacMurray appeared in numerous Disney films, including...
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  • Body Heat (category Double Indemnity)
    and Mickey Rourke. The film was inspired by the classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), in turn based on the 1943 novel of the same name. The film...
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    to suggest "mustiness," a technique he had also used for Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944). The film had the option to be shot in color, but it was instead...
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    referred to as "Tehachapi", as in the 1940s films Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity. The institution was "run for many years independently from the correctional...
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  • The plot was influenced by James M. Cain's crime novels, primarily Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Mildred Pierce. Aesthetically...
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  • Double Indemnity that, prior to production, Columbia Pictures requested that Universal Pictures (rightsholder for the Paramount film Double Indemnity)...
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  • award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura. The top ten 1944 released films by box office...
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    Robinson's roles included an insurance investigator in the film noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (the adversary of Moses) in The Ten Commandments, and his final...
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  • Jism (2003 film) (category Double Indemnity)
    (1981) by Lawrence Kasdan which was based on Billy Wilder's 1944 film Double Indemnity, an adaptation of James M. Cain's novel of the same name. Kabir, an...
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    crooked insurance salesman Fred MacMurray in the film noir classic Double Indemnity (1944). Thomas McCreery Powers was born in 1890 in Owensboro, Kentucky...
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  • eponymous plot device of the film Double Indemnity, a provision in which the proceeds of a life insurance policy pay double the face value for accidental...
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  • James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity (1944), is considered to be one of the defining authors of hard-boiled...
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  • Lipstone is perhaps best remembered for his disdain for the score of Double Indemnity, composed by Miklós Rózsa, whose work on Billy Wilder's previous film...
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    years later, he directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the film noir Double Indemnity (1944), which is considered a classic of its genre. He followed this...
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    1994, p. 405. Madsen 1994, p. 406. "Double Indemnity". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved November 8, 2020. "Double Indemnity". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved November...
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    assistance of a potential suitor. This theme extends to his other work, Double Indemnity (1934). Such elements of the book were a reference to the Gray and...
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  • Nominated for Academy Award 8 Phyllis Dietrichson Female Barbara Stanwyck Double Indemnity 1944 Nominated for Academy Award 9 Regan MacNeil (as possessed by the...
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    radio was $1,500-$2,500. Raft declined the lead role in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944). Wilder later said "We knew then that we'd have a good picture"...
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    She acted in two Oscar-nominated movies in 1944: the crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that...
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