From the moment they met it was murder : Double indemnity and the rise of film noir
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From the moment they met it was murder : Double indemnity and the rise of film noir
（Turner classic movies : TCM）
Running Press, 2024
1st ed
- : hardcover
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"First edition: March 2024"--T.p. verso
"The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir, Double indemnity, is told for the first time in this enthralling narrative from noir authorities Alain Silver and James Ursini."--Dust jacket
Summary on website of Running Press: From actual murder to magazine fiction to movie, the history of Double indemnity is as complex as anything that hit the screen during film noir's classic period. A 1927 tabloid sensation "crime of the century" inspired journalist and would-be crime-fiction writer James M. Cain to pen a novella. Hollywood quickly bid on the film rights, but throughout the 1930s a strict code of censorship made certain that no studio could green-light a murder melodrama based on real events. Then in 1943 veteran scriptwriter and newly minted director Billy Wilder wanted the story for his third movie. With tentative approval from the studio he hired hardboiled novelist Raymond Chandler to co-write a script that would be acceptable to industry censors
"Filmography and synopsis": p. 245-254
Bibliography: p. 265-276
Includes index
収録内容
- Prologue : moonlight and roses
- True crime
- Human interest
- The mystery writer
- The Austrian journalist
- The movie : a fancy piece of homicide
- The movie : the top shelf
- Aftermath and movement : the rise of film noir