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    Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva...
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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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    (Schnitler, Theu Boermans, De Theatercompagnie) 2007/2008 and 2009 – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Johan Simons, NTGent) 2006 – Life Is a Dream (Calderon...
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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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  • Double Indemnity that, prior to production, Columbia Pictures requested that Universal Pictures (rightsholder for the Paramount film Double Indemnity)...
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  • Jism (2003 film) (category Double Indemnity)
    Jism (transl. Body) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language erotic thriller film directed and edited by Amit Saxena, written by Mahesh Bhatt, produced by Pooja...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Waldo Pierson (uncredited) Double Indemnity (1944) – Edward S. Norton Jr. Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) – Ralph Westcott Double Exposure (1944) – James R...
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  • "Dumbbell Indemnity" is the sixteenth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the...
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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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    encounters a man (Fred MacMurray) who has just committed a murder in Double Indemnity; and the title character's lawyer (Herbert MacCaulay) in The Thin Man...
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  • the Universal-owned noir film Double Indemnity (1944) called Big Trouble (1986). Its similarities to Double Indemnity meant the studio would violate...
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