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 Double Indemnity Quotes
4,721 words, approx. 16 pages
 Double Indemnity is a 1944 film about an insurance rep who lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler ,...
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James Cain | | Birth Date: |
July 1, 1892 | | Death Date: |
October 27, 1977 | | Place of Birth: |
Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
University Park, Maryland, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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journalist, writer |
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 Biography of James M(allahan) Cain
13385 words, approx. 44.6 pages
 "I, so far as I can sense the pattern of my mind, write of the wish that comes true, for some reason a terrifying concept, at least to my imagination. . . . I think my stories have some quality of the opening of a forbidden box, and that it is this, rath... summary from source:
 Biography of James Cain
1868 words, approx. 6.2 pages
Although he disliked the title, James M. Cain (1892-1977) is considered one of the preeminent "hard-boiled" crime writers of the 1930s and 1940s along with Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, and Raymond Chandler. His explicit, stark style both startled and...
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 Double Indemnity Summary
723 words, approx. 2 pagesDouble Indemnity (1935) is one of the classic, tough-talking murder stories of the late 1930s. Written by controversial mystery novelist James M. Cain (1892-1977), Double Indemnity is based upon a true story about a weak-willed insurance agent, Walter...
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 Business, North Carolina Double Indemnity
04/01/2000: 2,916 words, approx. 10 pages Bob Greczyn strains against the steering wheel, fighting 750 horsepower and 3,400 pounds. At 120 mph, the Chevy Monte Carlo wants to dive to the bottom of Lowe's Motor Speedway's banked curve. He's so close to the car ahead that he can't see the... summary from source:
The Washington Post Doubled Indemnity
03/24/1996: 576 words, approx. 2 pages As my husband and I tour Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London this May, we'll be thinking of State Farm Insurance. Thanks to that insurer and an illogical Maryland law, we paid only $14 for two round-trip tickets to London. Actually, the... summary from source:
 The New York Observer The Asexual Femme Fatale: Indemnity\'d5s Stanwyck
9/10/2006: 1,160 words, approx. 4 pagesHer shoes should have warned him. The shoes that Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson wears in the 1944 Double Indemnity—pumps with an unsightly ruffle of tulle on the toe, bedroom slippers with a puff of marabou—tell you everything you ever need to know about her, everything... summary from source:
The New York Observer The Asexual Femme Fatale: Indemnity's Stanwyck
9/10/2006: 1,160 words, approx. 4 pages Her shoes should have warned him. The shoes that Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson wears in the 1944 Double Indemnity—pumps with an unsightly ruffle of tulle on the toe, bedroom slippers with a puff of marabou—tell you everything you ever need to know about her,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Max Lerner
677 words, approx. 2 pages
Cain is known as a novelist of the "hard-boiled" school, but the designation strikes me as covering too many other diverse writers and not saying anything about Cain's essential quality. Double Indemnity was published last year along with two other Cain stories in a volume called Three of a Kind. To that volume Cain has contributed a revealing preface on how he came to write the sort of fiction he does, and what sort he thinks it is [see excerpt above]. It makes some sense, as a writer&...
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