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Double Indemnity

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Double Indemnity

Novel 1945 by US writer James M Cain. Narrated by insurance salesman, Walter Neff, the plot concerns a femme fatale Phyllis Nerdlinger, who entraps him into murdering her husband. The subsequent elaborate insurance fraud opens up a Pandora's box of self-destructive sexual desire, guilt, and suspicion. In 1944 it was turned into a key work of film noir by director Billy Wilder, who co-authored the screenplay with Raymond Chandler.



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