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0 View Larger Image . . . Double Indemnity: Drama. Adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright from the novel by James M. Cain. Directed by...

Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher...

The James M. Cain novel Mildred Pierce is brutal and beautiful, a Depression-era Los Angeles mashup of be-careful-what-you-wish-for and...

Mildred Pierce, Chester Brown and The Strokes share top billing on Mike Doherty's opinionated list of the best culture headed this way MUSIC. . The...

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett began his writing career in Smart Set with "The Parthian Shot" (October, 1922) and "The Great Lovers" (November, 1922). Switching to the Mencken/Nathan pulp Black Mask under the pseudonym Peter Collinson, and creating his first hard-boiled detective, the ...

Aspects of the topic The Boys in the Back Room are discussed in the following places at Britannica. and the United States; The Triple Thinkers (1938), which dealt with writers involved in multiple meanings; The Wound and the Bow (1941), about art ...

James M. Cain, in full James Mallahan Cain (b. Oct. 27, 1977, University Park, Md.), novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the "hard-boiled" school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and '40s. Cain ...

Aspects of the topic Double Indemnity are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Another successor was Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), whose novels, such as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), and The Little Sister....

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