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  2. Double Indemnity - Wikipedia

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    Language. English. Budget. $980,000. Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain 's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.

  3. Film noir - Wikipedia

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    Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...

  4. Alain Silver - Wikipedia

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    Website. alainsilver.com. Alain Silver is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter; music producer; film critic, film historian, DVD commentator, author and editor of books and essays on film topics, especially film noir, the samurai film, and horror films. Filmmakers about whom he has written include David Lean, Robert Aldrich ...

  5. Strangers on a Train (film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $7 million [2] Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1950 novel Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in late 1950, and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951, starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker.

  6. How the small screen breathes new life into classic film noir

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    But director Fernando Meirelles, justified by the hero's passion for old movies, interpolated the narrative with snippets of noir classics like “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), “The Big Heat ...

  7. Double Indemnity (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist -turned- novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in Liberty magazine in 1936 as an eight part serial, and later republished as one of "three long short tales" in the collection Three of a Kind. [1][2] The novel is based on the 1927 murder of Albert Snyder of the New York City ...

  8. Low-key lighting - Wikipedia

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    Low-key lighting is often used in product advertising. This camera is lit by a soft box positioned above, with a white reflector to the front-left. Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. [1] Traditional photographic lighting (three-point lighting ...

  9. Phyllis Dietrichson - Wikipedia

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    Phyllis Dietrichson (Phyllis Nirdlinger in the book) is a fictional character in the book and two film adaptations of James M. Cain 's novella Double Indemnity. For the 1944 film of the same name, Barbara Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The character is considered one of the best femme fatale roles in film noir ...