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Based on the novel by James M. Cain, "Double Indemnity" tells the story of Phyllis Nirlinger as she plans to murder her husband after taking out an insurance policy on his life that pays double if her husband dies in a fall from a moving train.Smooth-talking insurance agent Walter Huff falls for the femme fatale as the plot thickens with greed, lust and guilt.
"Before Double Indemnity became one of the most popular novels in American fiction, Cain wrote the story as a novella published as an eight-part serial in Liberty Magazine in 1936. Cain drew his inspiration for Double Indemnity from the sensational New York murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray in 1927.
Legendary director Billy Wilder adapted the story for film in 1944 with a screenplay he co-wrote with famed detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, the film received seven Academy Award nominations and in 1992 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Double Indemnity is widely credited with helping to propel the American film industry's explosive "film noir" movement in the 1940s and 50s." -- Read more at http://www.pitchengine.com/sjrep/san-jose-rep-presents-world-premiere-of-noir-classic--double-indemnity
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