Double Indemnity (film)
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| Directed by | Billy Wilder |
| Produced by | Joseph Sistrom |
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Double Indemnity by James M. Cain |
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| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | John Seitz |
| Edited by | Doane Harrison |
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Paramount Pictures
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $980,000 |
| Box office | $5 million |
Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine.
The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term "double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in rare cases when death is caused accidentally, such as while riding a railway.
Praised by many critics when first released, Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Academy Awards but did not win any. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often cited as a paradigmatic film noir and as having set the standard for the films that followed in that genre.
Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1992, Double Indemnity was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked #38 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of the 20th century, and in 2007 it placed 29th on their 10th Anniversary list.
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