# "Double Indemnity" (movie and book) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162 "2005-01-17T05:33:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/21 "2005-01-19T17:06:53Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Though I’ll admit the _brilliant_ Carol Burnett parody (_Double Calamity_) has somewhat ruined the movie for me. Okay, who here works for Chicago Channel 23 and played that Carol Burnett parody last night? ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/22 "2005-01-19T17:09:12Z")
Oooo, this thread is _very_ timely. We don’t have cable, and so wouldn’t have been able to watch it last night. However, we were just invited by a film-savvy couple of our acquaintance to go see _Double Indemnity_ this Friday up on the _big_ screen – one of our local art house theatres is showing it this! week! only! I’ve never seen it, but now I’m looking forward to it even more. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/23 "2005-01-19T17:46:26Z")
Yes, I watched (my wife had never seen it - she’s lead a sheltered life). We also watched **The Postman Always Rings Twice** and agreed that we would love to end up in compromising positions with John Garfield and Lana Turner (or rather, \*would \* have liked to…our kinks are pretty wide ranging but don’t get over as far as necrophilia). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/24 "2005-01-19T17:52:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Okay, who here works for Chicago Channel 23 and played that Carol Burnett parody last night? _Damn!_ I haven’t seen it since it first ran. Why don’t they release her movie parodies on video? Cop: “We found your husband’s body sticking out of a tuba at the Rose Bowl game with seven bullets in his back and a mouthful of Chinese checkers. We think it’s an accident.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/25 "2005-01-19T17:54:11Z")
> [@zut](#): > > I’ve never seen it, but now I’m looking forward to it even more. Ooooh, you are _so lucky_, seeing for the first time on the big screen! Then, you _gotta_ go find the book. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/26 "2005-01-19T17:56:16Z")
And as far as Fred McMurray is concerned, he was a great saxophone player in his early days, and rumor has it that he ended up as one of the wealthiest men in Hollywood through a combination of a series of very well executed real estate deals and being one of the stingiest men on the planet. My favorite film noir is **Laura**. Beautiful cinematography and a lovely Gene Tierney and a very oily, slithering Clifton Webb. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/27 "2005-01-19T18:05:42Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > But those are all auction items–there’s no shopping cart link because the disc is OOP and has been for years. :smack: Sorry about that. I thought it was still in print since I bought my copy (at Borders) just a couple of years ago. Must have been a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/28 "2005-01-19T18:12:44Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > And the ending of the book is one of the most chilling and terrifying bits of writing I have ever come across. “The moon.” Agreed! Oh man I forgot about that ending. So beautifully nuanced. Nobody put you on a faster, meaner bullet train than Cain. (That being said, I’ve yet to make it through _Mildred Pierce._) Only nitpick I had with Wilder’s _Double Indemnity_ was the smattering of arch “babies” in Fred MacMurray’s lines, courtesy of one Raymond Chandler. Er, say Ray, you realize the guy’s name isn’t “Marlowe,” right? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162/29 "2005-01-19T18:48:18Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Oh, was that you who left a message on my office phone last night? It was kinda garbled, I couldn’t quite make it out. Did any of it sound like “The son of a [unintellgible] stole my watch!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-indemnity-movie-and-book/285162.md?page=1)