Double Indemnity was a 1944 noir crime film about a woman who teamed up with an insurance salesman to kill her husband in the hopes of receiving a life insurance payment. The film was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and was entered into the National Film Registry in 1992. It was also recently named one of the “10 Greatest Crime Movies Based on Books” by Collider, along with The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption.
Double Indemnity was based on a James M. Cain novel of the same name. It was inspired by the real murder of Albert Snyder, who was murdered by his wife in 1927. She ended up getting the electric chair in Sing Sing Prison, which was photographed and published in the New York Daily News. Cain attended the trial while working as a journalist covering the story.
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In an interview with James Linville, writer Billy Wilder spoke about creating the script alongside Raymond Chandler, admitting that their collaboration didn't go smoothly at first. “Chandler came into the studio, and we gave him the Cain story, Double Indemnity, to read,” Wilder explained. “He came back the next day: ‘I read that story. It’s absolute shit!’ He hated Cain because of Cain’s big success with The Postman Always Rings Twice. He said, 'Well, I’ll do it anyway. Give me a screenplay so I can familiarize myself with the format. This is Friday. Do you want it a week from Monday?' 'Holy shit,' we said. We usually took five to six months on a script. ‘Don’t worry,’ he said. He had no idea that I was not only the director but was supposed to write it with him.”
Wilder continued, “He came back in ten days with eighty pages of absolute bullshit. He had some good phrases of dialogue, but they must have given him a script written by someone who wanted to be a director. He’d put in directions for fade-ins, dissolves, all kinds of camera moves to show he’d grasped the technique. I sat him down and explained we’d have to work together. We always met at nine o’clock and would quit at about four-thirty. I had to explain a lot to him as we went along, but he was very helpful to me. What we were doing together had real electricity. He was a very, very good writer—but not of scripts."
In addition to its movie adaptation, Double Indemnity was also adapted into a radio drama, a television film, and a stage adaptation. The story is considered a masterpiece in suspense by many, with some believing it is the best noir film of all time. As one Reddituser said, "Double Indemnity is one of those movies where I will drop everything that I'm doing of it's on just to catch a few scenes. Every line has meaning, every character is interesting enough to be worthy of a prequel film, and every time I watch it, I think that it should have won for Best Picture that year."
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