Double Indemnity - Richard Schickel (BFI Film Classics) Biographical/Historical Drama Cain's hard-boiled crime novel

Cain's hard-boiled crime novel

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auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s (Welcome to the Dollhouse) portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy

- A 2003 documentary containing interviews with Fonda

Double Indemnity - Richard Schickel (BFI Film Classics) Biographical/Historical Drama Cain's hard-boiled crime novel'Double Indemnity' by Richard Schickel (BFI Film Classics 88 page paperback) Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard boiled crime novel, the difficult relations between Wilder and his scriptwriter Raymond Chandler, the casting of a reluctant Fred MacMurray, and the late decision to cut the expensively