Double Indemnity The Complete Screenplay

Name: Double Indemnity The Complete Screenplay
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ISBN: 9780520218482

ISBN-10: 0520218485

ISBN-13: 9780520218482

Edition: 2010

Authors: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, Jeffrey Meyers

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On every level -- writing, direction, acting -- Double Indemnity (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, it tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role. From its grim story to its dark, atmospheric lighting, Double Indemnity is a definitive example of World War II-era film noir. Wilder's approach is everywhere evident: in the brutal cynicism the film displays, the moral complexity, and in the empathy we feel for the killers. The…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 139
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jeffrey Meyers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of such literary greats as D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, & F. Scott Fitzgerald.