![]() Barbara Stanwyck is Phyllis Dietrichson, the stunning and unhappy wife of an oil company executive and a manipulative, irresistible femme fatale in her blond wig. Fred MacMurry plays Walter Neff, 35, a lonely, single, and bored insurance salesman. (Chandler has a bit, cameo role in the film, sitting in the corridor of the insurance company building reading a newspaper.) John Seitz was the cinematographer of shades, shadows, and darkness, and Miklos Rozsa composed the foreboding, dramatic music (with a scene with Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" added in.) The movie features outstanding performances from the three leads. It is a great, celebrated movie, included on the National Registry maintained by the Library of Congress of films deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."īilly Wilder directed this 1944 film and wrote the screenplay in a stormy collaboration with Raymond Chandler. ![]() It was the first of Cain's novels that Hollywood adopted into a film, and it is often regarded as the film which inaugurated the difficult to define genre of film noir. The second of the Cain novels, "Double Indemnity" was published in book form in 1943 after it ran as a magazine serial seven years earlier. ![]() ![]() I have enjoyed reading these books and watching the films in what has become a lengthy passion for American noir. Cain wrote three novels that were adapted into classic films: "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Double Indemnity" and "Mildred Pierce". ![]()
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