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Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The film was based on James M. Cain 's novella of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine beginning in February 1936.
Dec 20, 1998 · A classic noir film by Billy Wilder, based on a James M. Cain novel, about an insurance salesman and a seductive wife who plot to kill her husband for money. Ebert analyzes the characters' motives, the dialogue, the style and the ending of this influential crime thriller.
Summaries. A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis ...
Find out who starred in and worked on the classic film noir Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder and based on a novel by James M. Cain. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent...
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Double Indemnity, American film noir, released in 1944, that was considered the quintessential movie of its genre. It followed the time-honoured noir plotline of a man undone by an evil woman. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film was adapted by director Billy.
A classic film-noir adaptation of James M. Cain's novel by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck star as a salesman and a housewife who plot a deadly insurance scam in 1940s Los Angeles.
