Double Indemnity

novel by Cain

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discussed in biography

  • In James M. Cain

    …were made from his novels: Double Indemnity (1936; film 1944), Mildred Pierce (1941; film 1945, TV miniseries 2011), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934; stage version 1936, films 1946, 1981).

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hard-boiled fiction

  • The Maltese Falcon
    In hard-boiled fiction

    …Twice (1934; film 1946) and Double Indemnity (1936; film 1944). Another successor was Raymond Chandler, whose work includes The Big Sleep (1939; film 1946), Farewell, My Lovely (1940; film 1944), and The Little Sister

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