Category: Crime

Bodily Injury Liability Coverage

Happy heavenly birthday to the great Barbara Stanwyck!

Ms. Stanwyck’s most famous film, Double Indemnity, has an immortal scene where the insurance inspector played by Edward G. Robinson shows up at her lover Fred MacMurray’s apartment so she has to hide behind his door to avoid Robinson seeing them together.It’s a great tense scene except that no building code in the world (then or now) allows a door to open out into a hallway like that. If it did, you would flatten anyone in the face who knocked on it.

That scene irritates Hack so much that he wrote a whole novel inspired by it.