Double Indemnity (film)

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Billy Wilder, cowritten by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cains 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eightpart serial in Liberty magazine.

Walter Neff Fred MacMurray, a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes Edward G. Robinson, a brilliant claims adjuster. The story, told primarily in flashback, ensues.Neff first meets the alluring Phyllis Dietrichson Barbara Stanwyck during a routine house call to remind her husband Tom Powers that his automobile insurance policy is up for renewal. They flirt, until Phyllis asks how she could take out an accident policy on her husbands life without his knowledge. Neff deduces she is contemplating murder, and makes it clear he wants no part of it. ........

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