Double Indemnity
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder, James M. Cain
Producer: Buddy DeSylva
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 the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; and 3 more.
- Based on Double Indemnity (novel by James M. Cain).
- James M. Cain based his novella Double Indemnity on a 1927 murder perpetrated by Ruth Snyder, married to Albert Snyder, and her lover Henry Judd Gray, who colluded with an insurance agent to obtain a $45,000 policy with a double-indemnity clause without Albert's knowledge and then have him murdered.
- Cain had become a popular crime novelist following the publication of The Postman Always Rings Twice in 1934, and Double Indemnity began making the rounds in Hollywood shortly after it was serialized in Liberty magazine in 1936.
- I am sure you will agree that it is most important...to avoid what the code calls "the hardening of audiences," especially those who are young and impressionable, to the thought and fact of crime.
Filming Locations
- Exterior shots of the Dietrichson house in the film were shot at a Spanish Colonial Revival house on 6301 Quebec Drive in Beachwood Canyon.
Previous Showings
15 Runs • 10 Festivals
18,436 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (October 25, 1944)
Original Run: October 25, 1944 (Wednesday - Saturday)
All runs on record (15):
- October 25, 1944 (Wednesday - Saturday)Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray
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