{"id":27613,"date":"2022-01-25T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27613"},"modified":"2022-01-25T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:34:48","slug":"a-review-of-the-1944-classic-double-indemnity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27613","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 1944 classic &#8220;Double Indemnity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on James Cain&#8217;s novel of the same name, this classic\u00a0<em>film noir<\/em>\u00a0was written by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder and directed by Wilder. The term &#8216;double indemnity&#8217; refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout when the death is accidental. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This invitation to murder is seized upon by a\u00a0<em>femme fatale<\/em>\u00a0played by Barbara Stanwyck, who was nominated for an Academy Award, and an insurance salesman portrayed by Fred MacMurray, who took on a rare serious role, while Edward G Robinson was the claims adjuster at the salesman&#8217;s company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memorable\u00a0<em>leitmotif<\/em>\u00a0in the action is the lighting of cigarettes and cigars. This is a wonderfully plotted movie with shifting interactions between the three main players and the production received no less than seven Academy Award nominations (but won none).\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on James Cain&#8217;s novel of the same name, this classic\u00a0film noir\u00a0was written by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder and directed by Wilder. The term &#8216;double indemnity&#8217; refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout when the death is accidental. This invitation to murder is seized upon by a\u00a0femme fatale\u00a0played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27614,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27613\/revisions\/27614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}