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	Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Double indemnity is when you get twice the money on an insurence return becuase of certain cercumstances.
		He decides to concoct a plan to kill her husband under terms of double indemnity and retire the both of them to a nice sunny beach or a private island.
		Double indemnity occurs when a person dies from falling off a train, and they decide that is the way Mr.
	www.deadrabbit.org /movievault/doubleindemnity.htm (529 words)

	TCM ~ THE ESSENTIALS
		Cold-blooded, brutal, highly stylized, and informed with a fl sense of humor, Double Indemnity is one of the high points of 1940s filmmaking and a prime example of a genre and style that remains highly influential in its look, attitude and storyline.
		Long before she appeared in Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck had played her share of sexy dames, tough cookies, and women hungry for a piece of the action in a world dominated by men.
		Double Indemnity was only his third film but even here, we can spot the hallmarks of a top director and master storyteller.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /essentials/2002/fea_double.html (965 words)

	Orbital Reviews: Double Indemnity (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Double Indemnity is a classic film noir written and directed by Billy Wilder, who also directed films such as Sunset Blvd. (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960), among many other acclaimed classics.
		Double Indemnity was Wilder's third film, after The Major and the Minor (1942) and Five Graves to Cairo (1943).
		Their murder plan was sloppy, though, and detectives had little trouble uncovering the truth of his death, so not only did the couple fail to earn the $48,000 life insurance policy that also had a double indemnity clause, but they also both fried in the electric chair in January 1928 at Sing Sing.
	orbitalreviews.com /movies/DoubleIndemnity.html (1200 words)

	Double Indemnity
		Double Indemnity is a trial in the court of public opinion.
		Double Indemnity exists in a placenta of secular astrology, where fate and chance are subject to the mathematics of an insurance company's actuarial tables rather than to the divine Fortune of a Christian God...
		Dietrichson's "double" crutches are incidental compared to the many other instances of "double" imagery, such as Neff's two "crimes" (Dietrichson and his daughter) or his two shots when he completes his role as sexual executioner.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/DIndemnity.htm (2249 words)

	Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
		Double Indemnity has been filmed at least twice: in 1944, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, and in 1973, a TV film directed by by Jack Smight and starring Richard Crenna and Samantha Eggar
		The prevalent world view in Double Indemnity is a deeply cynical one; in retrospect, given how and why the story is being told (which is only revealed at the end), there can perhaps be no other.
		As is the possibility of the cash prize of a double indemnity claim on an accident policy.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/cainjm/doublei.htm (857 words)

	Double Indemnity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Based on Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain
		The movie was adapted by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain that first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form in Liberty Magazine.
		The story was based on a 1927 crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Double_Indemnity (391 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I'm not buying.'' The puzzle of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity,'' the enigma that keeps it new, is what these two people really think of one another.
		No problem; "Double Indemnity'' originally ended with Neff in the gas chamber, but that scene was cut because an earlier one turned out to be the perfect way to close the film.
		"Double Indemnity'' has one of the most familiar noir themes: The hero is not a criminal, but a weak man who is tempted and succumbs.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981220/REVIEWS08/401010313/1023 (1308 words)

	Foster on Film - Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What is often missed about Double Indemnity is that it is a comedy, a dark, twisted, comedy.
		In Double Indemnity, there are no really good people, only one bright person, and no way for people to interact in any meaningful way.
		Perhaps the only good thing to happen in Double Indemnity was Lola leaving Nino, but now they will be back together and he will beat her and society will go on.
	home.comcast.net /~fosteronfilm/double.htm (871 words)

	Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8438.html (289 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'Double Indemnity'
		Over the credits of 1944's Double Indemnity (playing Nov. 28-29 as part of a week-long Universal noir series at the Roxie), we see the image of a shadowy man wobbling toward us with the aid of wrist crutches.
		Double Indemnity's director, Billy Wilder, seems to hint that a heavy conscience is a malign trick of the body, like a bad leg or a bad eye.
		Double Indemnity is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy, in which the epigrams fly like bullets.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/11.22.99/doubleindemnity-9945.html (618 words)

	Double Indemnity: For Barbara Stanwyck
		Double Indemnity, traces an almost perfect crime from its inception to the point where it falls apart because of the two characters absolute mistrust of one another.
		The fact that the story is told through flashbacks by a confessing Walter (wounded by the unfaithful Phyllis just before he shoots her to death) substitutes for the need to discover “whodunit”, and in so has the audience pulling for the murderers’ success.
		Double Indemnity illustrates exceptionally well the ability she has at her command, and the precision with which she can employ it.
	www.moderntimes.com /bab/di.htm (1614 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity
		Where would Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot be without their scripts, fashioned by him and marvellous writers like Charles Brackett, I.A.L. Diamond and, in the case of Double Indemnity, Raymond Chandler?
		Double Indemnity is a classic 40s film of the sort which couldn't be made now without self-consciousness.
		Another factor which makes Double Indemnity exceptional is its humour and lightness of touch which prevents what is a decidedly dark tale, illustrated by Miklos Rozsa's superb score (based on Cesar Franck's Symphony) subsiding into melodrama.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,91758,00.html (509 words)

	CCH Business Owner's Toolkit \| Double Indemnity
		A double indemnity provision is a life insurance policy rider available for an additional premium under which the beneficiaries are paid double the face amount of the policy if the insured dies as a result of an accident rather than from illness or natural causes.
		Because of the uncertain relationship between how one dies and what one's beneficiaries' needs are, it is usually advisable to forgo purchasing double indemnity coverage.
		If you need more insurance, it's normally a better idea to use what you would have paid for the double indemnity rider to buy more coverage, rather than to "bet" that you will oblige your beneficiaries by dying in an accident, rather than by illness.
	www.toolkit.cch.com /text/P08_5263.asp (241 words)

	Double Indemnity (1944)
		Double Indemnity (1944) is director Billy Wilder's classic film noir masterpiece - a cynical, witty, and sleazy thriller about adultery, corruption and murder.
		The material for Double Indemnity was derived from 'hard-boiled' James M. Cain's 1943 melodramatic novella Three of a Kind that first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form in Liberty Magazine.
		Their calculated, cold-blooded scheme to brutally murder her husband for purposes of lustful desire and financial gain, because of a double indemnity clause in his accident policy, ultimately fails.
	www.filmsite.org /doub.html (3767 words)

	'Double cropping' indemnity reduced - billingsgazette.com
		But now, farmers would receive reduced indemnities on their first crops if they planted and insured another crop on the same ground and again submitted losses, he said.
		If there were no losses on the second crop, farmers would receive the full indemnity for the first crop, he said.
		Situations that have led to double cropping in Montana, where Nickless said the practice is not common, have included drought conditions, he said.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/09/build/state/63-double-croping.inc (343 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Double Indemnity
		Double Indemnity (1935) is one of the classic, tough-talking murder stories of the late 1930s.
		Nirdlinger's inconvenient husband has to be eliminated so that his wife and her lover can collect on his life insurance,; a policy which doubles in value if the holder dies by accident.
		In the case of Double Indemnity, the novel ends with Huff and Phyllis on a freighter going nowhere in particular, unable to return to the United States because of their murderous pasts, and contemplating suicide by jumping off the boat into shark infested waters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100360 (693 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger's dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself.
		At first repelled by Phyllis's roundabout suggestions to dispatch her husband, he soon falls in line with the plot by insuring her husband with a double indemnity accident policy that will pay tens of thousands of dollars in case the poor chap expires in a railway mishap.
		Despite these problems, noir fans will want to spend a few hours with "Double Indemnity." The book is exceedingly short, the story moves at a lightening fast clip, and the characters are interesting.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679723226 (1880 words)

	Images - Film Noir
		Double Indemnity had many ancestors, including the silent German Expressionist cinema Wilder had worked in during the 1920's, but between them, Wilder and Chandler helped to invent the film noir genre.
		The novel Double Indemnity had been written by another master of the hardboiled novel, James M. Cain, and Paramount producer Joseph Sistrom guessed that Chandler, who had written such Philip Marlowe classics as The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, knew the turf.
		And the "death house" of Double Indemnity, where Phyllis and Walter meet, plot murder, and where their strange love finally reaches its apocalypse, still stands, secluded and quiet, high in the Hollywood Hills, at 6301 Quebec Street, in Los Angeles.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/infocus/double.htm (774 words)

	Noir 3 - Double Indemnity
		All of the archetypes and iconography are in place—or are promised, since Hollywood must always rejuvenate the next picture in a cycle with something new that builds from the original work.
		There is irony in the title; “indemnity” suggests security against harm or loss, and “double indemnity” assures the bearer of protection from liability or penalty.
		To believe in indemnity is to place faith in nothing, and Double Indemnity, one of the finest of all noir films, is a study in nothingness as the ultimate condition of human endeavor.
	www.audiencemag.com /ARTICLES/NOIR/filmnoir_3.html (495 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is thrilling to see 'Double Indemnity' on DVD in any format or region.
		Cue: double crossing, hard boiled dialogue, much match striking by human thumb and a scene stealing performance by Edward G Robinson as Barton T Keyes.
		Double Indemnity was oscar nominated for best picture and director.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00079FGSU (812 words)

	Double Indemnity - Richard Schickel
		Richard Schickel's book is an introduction to Billy Wilder's classic 1944 film, based on James Cain's novella, Double Indemnity.
		Schickel explains the Wilder film's significant place in cinematic history, as model of a new cinematic form (film noir, as it came to be called) and signalling the emergence of Billy Wilder as a director.
		With numerous stills from the movie (and a few other pictures -- including an excellent Chandler-Wilder double portrait), it makes for a nice and modestly informative volume -- but there's a lot more that could be said, and it's too bad Schickel didn't go into greater depth on many of the aspects of the film.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/cainjm/doublei2.htm (454 words)

	Double Indemnity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Double Indemnity USA 1944 Regi Billy Wilder Manus Raymond Chandler etter James M. Cains novelle Foto John F. Seitz Musikk Miklos Rozsa Med Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson 106 min 35mm Utleie NFK
		Double Indemnity var beryktet allerede før den hadde premiere, og mange fulgte spent med på forberedelsene og manusarbeidet.
		Double Indemnity er en skjebnesvanger reise inn i begjærets voldsomme luner.
	www.nvg.ntnu.no /film/tfk/v97/omtaler/04.23-Indemnity.html (380 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Double Indemnity at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A fast talking, amoral insurance salesman, who drops by a policyholder’s residence to get a signature on an auto insurance renewal, he is heaven-sent to the unsatisfied hausfrau Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) who confides her desire to rid herself of her absent and inattentive husband.
		Another element that sets Double Indemnity apart from the film noir herd is the intelligent screenplay, adapted from the James Cain short story by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, a name you’ll recognize as he also wrote 1946’s The Big Sleep which made a sensation of Bogart and 19 year-old Lauren Bacall.
		Double Indemnity is available in DVD and VHS formats, both in the 4x3 theatrical format as the film was made before widescreen format was introduced in the 1950s.
	www.epinions.com /content_135167512196 (580 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com
		"Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," "Sunset Boulevard," "The Seven Year Itch," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment," among others, capture something peculiarly American in their scope and purpose.
		In "Double Indemnity" and "Sunset Boulevard," each protagonist tells his story in voice-over, describing his descent into evil and reaching a cleansing realization of his own culpability.
		And we always know where decency is located in his films: Even in his film noir masterpiece, "Double Indemnity," there is never any doubt or relativism about the wickedness of the protagonist's (Fred MacMurray) actions.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1998/01/30/feat/tv.1.html (717 words)

	The Advertiser: Panel explores indemnity crisis (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The committee was part of a truce agreed by the Government and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) last week, designed to appease doctors who were threatening to resign en masse from the public health system.
		Among the issues the panel will examine are current and proposed reforms, including changes to state-based tort law and the federal government's medical indemnity rescue package.
		Mr Abbott was confident the panel would find a long-term solution to the indemnity problem, which has dogged the government since the collapse of insurer United Medical Protection (UMP) in May last year.
	www.theadvertiser.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,7579342%255E1702,00.html (442 words)

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