Double indemnity is a provision in an insurance policy that doubles the payout if the policyholder dies as a result of an accident or injury. It is usually offered as an additional benefit to the ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use. We have two Jangles this ...

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Billy Wilder was more than the Steven Spielberg of his era. While Spielberg is one of the most prominent, acclaimed, and decorated directors of all time, Wilder is that and a writer as well. He wrote ...

Film noir is one of the most durable of American film genres, and a timely 75th-anniversary screening of two of its most noteworthy examples demonstrates exactly why. “Double Indemnity” features a ...

Double Indemnity follows Walter Neff, an insurance salesman who falls for a married woman, Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck. Fred MacMurray stars as Neff, who helps Phyllis plot her ...

James M. Cain's Liberty story, "Double Indemnity," apparently based on a sensational murder of the 1920s, has become an absorbing melodrama in its Paramount adaptation. It is certain boxoffice ...

Double Indemnity is a classic piece of filmmaking that perhaps embodies the term film noir. It's got the smart guy whose wits fail him around a lovely lady, the dangerous beauty who is best looked ...