July 3, 1944 –
Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on this date.
Author James M. Cain later admitted that if he had come up with some of the solutions to the plot that screenwriters Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler did, he would have employed them in his original novel.
The Haus of Dcaligari 