Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 An Accented Cinema 6
7. 2 The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice: Double Indemnity (1944) 30
8. 3 In the Ruins of Berlins: A Foreign Affair (1948) 54
9. 4 Ghosting Hollywood: Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora (1978) 76
10. 5 All Dressed Up and Running Wild: Some Like It Hot (1959) 100
11. 6 Being a Mensch in the Administered World: The Apartment (1960) 125
12. 7 In the Closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) 147
13. Chronology 167
14. Filmography 170
15. Bibliography 182
16. Index 191