{"id":10476,"date":"2021-05-22T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-20T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:19:37","slug":"double-indemnity-to-along-came-polly-the-greatest-insurance-films-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/double-indemnity-to-along-came-polly-the-greatest-insurance-films-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Indemnity to Along Came Polly: The Greatest Insurance Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the world continues its discussion of this year\u2019s Oscar winners and losers, the Insurance Information Institute<\/a> has put together its own list of movies worth celebrating\u2014those film in which insurance plays a starring role (a couple of them have even garnered Oscars of their own). Over the past 65 years, these films have featured Hollywood legends including Edward G. Robinson, Cary Grant and Faye Dunaway and in more recent years, popular actors such Jack Nicholson and Jennifer Aniston.<\/p>\n

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Double Indemnity<\/i><\/b> (1944)<\/p>\n

Director: Billy Wilder; Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson<\/p>\n

In this classic film noir, smitten insurance man Walter Neff (MacMurray) plots the perfect murder with femme fatale client Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck): Stage her husband\u2019s \u201caccidental\u201d death to collect double indemnity on his life insurance, then abscond with the loot. But the lethal duo must first get past a crafty claims investigator (Robinson) who senses something isn\u2019t kosher. What ensues is a cat-and-mouse game with fatal consequences.<\/p>\n

Oscar Count: 7 nominations<\/p>\n

Quote: The job I\u2019m talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It\u2019s the hottest job in the business\u2026 Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from 9 to 5, huh? Just a pile of papers to shuffle around and five sharp pencils and a scratch pad to make figures on. Maybe a little doodling on the side. Well, that\u2019s not the way I look at it, Walter. To me, a claims man is a surgeon. That desk is an operating table. And those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels. And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation, they\u2019re alive, they\u2019re packed with drama, with twisted hopes and crooked dreams. A claims man, Walter, is a doctor and a bloodhound\u2026 and a cop and a judge and a jury and a father confessor all in one.<\/p>\n

Memento<\/i><\/b> (2000)<\/p>\n

Director: Christopher Nolan; Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano<\/p>\n

Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, ex-insurance investigator Leonard Shelby (Pearce) embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife. To carry out his plan and compensate for his disability Shelby snaps Polaroids of people and places, jotting down contextual notes on the backs of the photos, and tattoos important facts on his body.<\/p>\n

Oscar Count: 2 nominations<\/p>\n

Quote: Memory\u2019s unreliable. No no no, really. Memory\u2019s not perfect; it\u2019s not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. Cops don\u2019t catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memories. That\u2019s how you investigate. I know. It\u2019s what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They\u2019re just an interpretation, they\u2019re not a record, and they\u2019re irrelevant if you have the facts.<\/p>\n

The Fortune Cookie<\/i><\/b> (1966)<\/p>\n

Director: Billy Wilder; Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau<\/p>\n

Shyster William Gingrich (Matthau) foresees a financial bonanza after Cleveland Browns star \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Jackson accidentally levels cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon), Gingrich\u2019s brother-in-law. Barely hurt, Hinkle is loath to help Gingrich scam the insurance company till realizing the moola might lure back his ex. A budding rapport with the guilt-ridden Jackson, however, begins gnawing at Hinkle\u2019s conscience.<\/p>\n

Oscar Count: 4 nominations; 1 win\u2013Walter Matthau, Best Actor in a Supporting Role<\/p>\n

Quote: Too bad it didn\u2019t happen further down the street\u2026 in front of the May Company. From them, you can collect! Couldn\u2019t you have dragged yourself another 20 feet?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the world continues its discussion of this year\u2019s Oscar winners and losers, the Insurance Information Institute has put together […]","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"disable_comments":false,"tpd_featured_posts_arr":"","hide_featured_img_single_post":false,"msn_featured_video":[],"_msn_custom_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,82,93,91,35967],"tags":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-10476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-acting","category-articles-directing","category-articles-distribution","category-articles-moviemaking","category-sponsored-editorial"],"primary_category":{"term_id":90,"name":"Articles - Acting","slug":"articles-acting","taxonomy":"category","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/category\/archives\/moviemaking\/acting\/articles-acting\/"},"thumbnail":false,"fimg_url_thumb":false,"featured_img_medium":false,"author_name":"MM Writers","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68d39fcaea3102e0089148511686456f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_link":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/author\/mm-writers\/","post_categories":["Articles - Acting"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Double Indemnity to Along Came Polly: The Greatest Insurance Films","url":"http:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/double-indemnity-to-along-came-polly-the-greatest-insurance-films-2\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/double-indemnity-to-along-came-polly-the-greatest-insurance-films-2\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Articles - Acting","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"MM Writers"}],"creator":["MM Writers"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"MovieMaker Magazine","logo":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mm_site_logo-2.svg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2021-05-22T18:10:40Z","datePublished":"2021-05-22T18:10:40Z","dateModified":"2024-03-20T14:19:37Z"},"rendered":"