Double Indemnity (1944)






A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.


Books on Double Indemnity

Richard Schickel
Double Indemnity
London, 1992

Books with substantial mentioning of Double Indemnity

John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.)
Fifty Key American Films
London and New York, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

William Hare
Early Film Noir, Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts
The Great Detective Pictures
Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1990

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Books with an entry on Double Indemnity

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Robert Beck
The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2002

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles on Double Indemnity

Simon Braund, Double Indemnity, in: Empire, nr. 264 (June), 2011 pp. 152-153

Articles with substantial mentioning of Double Indemnity

Robert Porfirio, Billy Wilder (1906- ), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002

James Ursini, John F. Seitz (1892-1979), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002

Kim Newman, The 10 Best Ever Screenplays, in: Empire, nr. 186, 2004 pp. 72-73

Articles with an entry on Double Indemnity

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49

Reviews

Ian Freer, Double Indemnity/The Lost Weekend, in: Empire, nr. 277 (July), 2012 pp. 146-147 (DVD review)