Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir It stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The movie was adapted by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella Three of a Kind by James M. Cain that first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form in Liberty Magazine. It was directed by Wilder. The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth (Brown) Snyder persuaded her boyfriend to kill her husband, after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy - with a double-indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested. 1

External links

• {{imdb title|id=0036775|title=Double Indemnity}}
• Double Indemnity at Movie Tome
• Roger Ebert's Great Movie review
• New York Times review

Ruth Snyder's story http://www.poeforward.com/mrperfumery/deadgirls/historical/executed/snyder/snyder.htm

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