"Many of the sequences and vignettes were highly typical and familiar for audiences: the young daughter's casual announcement of her engagement and marriage plans during a quiet family dinner, he mixed emotions of losing a "baby girl," the heart-to-heart talk with the bridegroom, the meeting with the in-laws, the machinations of the wedding planners, discussions regarding the honeymoon, and he overall expense of the venture., the protagonist's apartment at the Chateau Marmont, etc.The material forDouble Indemnitywas derived from 'hard-boiled' James M.Cain's 1943 melodramatic novellaThree of a Kindthat first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form inLibertyMagazine."Chapter II:Near the country estate of the Sanderson family is Bartlett Village.It is also the home of Squire Bartlett (Burr McIntosh), the richest farmer in the neighborhood.At the Bartlett farm, springtime is "awakening" - flowers and trees blossom, newborn birds in a nest crane their necks for food, baby chicks are wrapped in a blanket, cows graze, and the Bartletts sit in rocking chairs on the front lawn."]Now, I'm sure there's some of you here today who hink of us as such.And I should like to ask anyone who has called us well-meaning amateurs to stand up by his chair and tell me just why a well-meaning amateur is any less reliable than a well-meaning professional at a moment like this.When we get into that camp, you're to keep your mouth shut.Do you understand what I'm saying?Feisel's camp is under attack from the Turks.They are interrupted by the sounds of explosions and Turkish bi-planes flying overhead in an air-raid bombing attack on the camp.