13 Facts About Double Indemnity

1.

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.

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2.

Double Indemnity began making the rounds in Hollywood shortly after it was published in Liberty magazine in 1936.

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3.

Wilder and Chandler's Double Indemnity screenplay was included in Library of America's second volume of Chandler's work, Later Novels and Other Writings .

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4.

Double Indemnity'strust was misplaced: Double Indemnity'scontract was up for renewal at the time, and because his friend and co-star Carole Lombard had shrewdly and successfully taught him how to play hardball with the studio bosses, he was not the pliable pushover of old.

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5.

Score to Double Indemnity was composed by Miklos Rozsa, whose work on Wilder's previous film Five Graves to Cairo had been his first real Hollywood engagement for a major studio.

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6.

When Rozsa pointed out that Double Indemnity was a love story, Lipstone suggested his music was more appropriate to The Battle of Russia.

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7.

At just the time Double Indemnity was released, Selznick's Since You Went Away was enjoying some box-office success.

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8.

At the 17th Academy Awards on March 15,1945, Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Oscars, but did not win any.

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9.

In 2015, Double Indemnity ranked 35th on BBC's "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world.

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10.

Double Indemnity is an important example of a genre of films called film noir.

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11.

Double Indemnity has been compared with Wilder's other acclaimed film noir: Sunset Boulevard .

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12.

Double Indemnity was adapted as a radio play on two broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater, first on March 5,1945 with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, then five years later on February 16,1950 with Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.

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13.

Double Indemnity is one of the films parodied in the 1993 film Fatal Instinct; the hero's wife conspires to have him shot on a moving train and fall into a lake so that she can collect on his insurance, which has a "triple indemnity" rider.

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