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     Sometimes story-tales are based in true stories and Double Indemnity has something of it. A case ocurred in the last '20s era. Where a woman in plot with her lover killed her husband to collect a insurance policy. As same as the novel the victim was not aware of such insurance and the sum was almost of $100,000. The case was knew as Snyder and Grey. Moreover, V. Penelope Pelizzon and Nancy M West, authors of Multiple Indemnity: Film Noir, James M. Cain, and Adaptations of a Tabloid Case, commented that it looked like J.Cain recreated what the documentals of that time stated regarding to that case. Later on, with the film the whole story was refurbished.

 



     Everything happended in the city of Queens, New York the morning of March 20, 1927. The forty-four year-old art editor Albert Snyder was found death is his bedroom. All appeared that the killers used a regular and simple home furniture as a weapon to accomplish their objetive...a They did not have any mercy to kill Mr. Snyder. Followed he suffered strangulation her nose was covered with chloroform-soaked cotton. People who were closed to him did not believe of such cruel was commited against Mr. Snyder. Although her wife, Mrs. Ruth Snyder, tried to cover everything like an assault, it took some hours to the police to find out that she had planned the crime together with her lover, Judd Gray. In one side of the story Ruth attempted to guard herself claiming that the whole plan was made it by Gray. Even she blamed him of her infidelity against her husband. In the other side, Gray pointed the finger at her, claiming that he felt in her tramps of femme fatale, seductively and beautiful but treacherous. The whole story was involved with one person, a person who likes evil, mysterious, which gives the same value to love or kill by pleasure. She is a femme fatale, where Ruth Snyder fitted perfect in Phillys Dietrichson character.    
 J. Cain added some of reality in his novel and Wilder was in charged of pulish the lines, together made one of the most famous film noirs of the '40s era.