![]() ![]() That is if he ever finished paying for it." (One could write a miniature essay on the Wilder/Chandler gloss on Spanish-style houses in Los Angeles in the 1930s, by the way.) After getting by the cranky maid, and getting a load of the just-summoned-in-from-sunning-herself Phyllis, who, at this point, could still be mistaken for a relatively wholesome specimen, Neff observes the living room dust and soon Phyllis makes her proper entrance. ![]() This one must have cost somebody thirty thousand bucks. It was one of those California Spanish houses everyone was nuts about ten or fifteen years ago. On my way back I remembered this auto renewal near Los Feliz Boulevard, so I drove over there. ![]() Dietrichson on that day in May: "I'd been out to Glendale to deliver a policy on some dairy trucks. Neff recalls the then-diligent insurance man he was, before he met Mrs. In the Wilder movie, after settling in at his desk to make his confession, the dying Walter Neff sets the scene, and the time-1938, two years after the Cain novel was published, six years before the movie was released, making it, in a sense, a sort of period piece.
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