Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir from Billy Wilderdirected, based on James m. Cains eponymous crime novel from 1935. The title refers to a clause in an insurance policy which provides that society a plural of named in the contract amount will pay in case of death by accident. Widely regarded as a classic, Double Indemnity is often cited as a paradigmatic film noir and a standard for the movies that followed in that genre.



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[hide] *1 Cast  ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Story[ Edit] == The film is about Walter Neff, an insurance agent who falls for the beauty of the already married Phyllis Dietrichson. The feelings are mutual. Together concoct a wicked plan to Mr. Dietrichson, Phyllis ' husband, to bring and so all the money to collect his life insurance. The plan seems foolproof. Seems ...
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 * Fred MacMurray: Walter Neff
 * Barbara Stanwyck: Phyllis Dietrichson
 * Edward G. Robinson: Barton Keyes
 * Porter Hall: Mr. Jackson
 * Jean Heather: Lola Dietrichson
 * Tom Powers: Mr. Dietrichson
 * Byron Barr: Nino Zachetti
 * Richard Gaines: Edward S. Norton Jr.

The film was nominated for the Oscar in 1945 for best picture, but lost to Going My Way. The story was based on a crime committed in 1927 by a woman from Queensand her lover. Ruth (Brown) Snyder convinced her friend Judd Gray to kill her husband after a large "double indemnity" life insurance had been shut down. The assassins were caught quickly. ==Influence[ Edit] == Billy Wilders classic film adaptation of James m. Cains book is named as the ultimate movie noirthriller from the forties. The image of the story was entrusted to the experienced cinematographer John Seitz, which Sullivan's Travels in advance and This Gun For Hire had filmed. Along with art directors Hans Dreier and Hal Pereira he determined largely the atmosphere of the film left by using large contrasts, dark corners within the picture frame, and a complex shadow play. The consistent use of highly contrasting lighting, sparsely lit locations and shafts of diffuse light that cigarette smoke or invaded by the blinds of a framework gave the film a particularly expressive and dark quality, which still was emphasized by applying a monochrome color scheme. This fit perfectly with the grim story and contributed to the tension. Seitz ' work was so effective that it was nominated for an Academy Award and it would be the films noirs still strong influence in the next decade.