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(0)James M Cain
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In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
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Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000...
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English
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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir. Performed by James Naughton.
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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak...
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Mason/Charter
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
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An academic looking for money finds a seductive woman-and trouble-in this suspenseful tale by the Edgar Award–winning crime writer.
Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money to make his dreams come true. In the Washington area, the oldest money is found not in the District, but in Delaware, a land of wealth so astonishing that even...
11) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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A woman's obsessive love for her spoiled and selfish daughter leads her into divorce, the restaurant business, and the accusation of murder.
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The Library of America volume 94
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Distributed to the trsde in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
13) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
15) Double indemnity
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Publisher
Unviersal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
16) Double indemnity
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A married woman having an affair with a drifter plots to kill her husband; Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate several mysteries surrounding the Sternwood family; a murder plot goes awry when the wrong person is killed; greed and deception surround the search for a valuable and rare statue.
18) Double indemnity
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.