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             and the man tempt one another with various schemes aimed at obtaining
             either money or power. Both are attracted not so much by the crime as by
             the thrill of committing a crime with the other person, knowing all too
             well that their chances of being caught by the law are pretty high.
             Of all the films that were produced in Hollywood during the "Golden
             Age" of film noir, one stands out above all the others, namely Double
             Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder with a screenplay by Wilder and
             Raymond Chandler, the hard-boiled author of The Postman Always Rings Twice,
             and based on a short story by James M. Cain. The cast, made up primarily of
             Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and veteran actor Edward G. Robinson,
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