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Jan 5, 2011 · Books. Double Indemnity. James M. Cain. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 5, 2011 - Fiction - 128 pages. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of ...
Jun 6, 2022 · Picture 9/10. The Criterion Collection presents Billy Wilder’s defining noir Double Indemnity on 4K UHD, presenting it in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on a dual-layer, BD-66 disc. Delivered with Dolby Vision, the 2160p/24hz ultra high-definition encode is sourced from a new 4K restoration coming from a scan of a 35mm nitrate composite ...
Double indemnity refers to payment by a life insurance policy of two times the face value when death results from an accident (e.g., an auto accident) as opposed to a health problem (e.g., cardiac arrest).
May 14, 1989 · ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.
Double Indemnity (1944) A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental. A rich woman and a ...
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Jul 8, 2019 · Initially, the pair commit the crime without being detected, but an investigation by Barton Keyes (Edgar G. Robinson), a claims adjuster who is also Neff’s good friend at the company, slowly reveals the deception. Adapted from a James M. Cain novella, Double Indemnity is recognised as one of the signal achievements of film noir, a type of ...
Double Indemnity Summary. 1938. Los Angeles. The night is dark and the blood seeping from Walter Neff is red. Neff is an insurance salesman for the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. and he is in his office, recording a confession into his Dictaphone. The confession is addressed to Barton Keyes, the claims agent who is his immediate superior.
