Fred MacMurray
Walter Neff
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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.
- $980,000
- July 3, 1944 (United States)
- Joseph Sistrom [uncredited]
- Miklós Rózsa
Double Indemnity: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall. 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.
- Billy Wilder
- 2 min
Dec 20, 1998 · A classic noir film about an insurance salesman and a seductive woman who plot to kill her husband for money. Roger Ebert analyzes the characters, the dialogue, the style and the ending of Billy Wilder's masterpiece.
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 Dietrichson ...
Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1944). The film was adapted by director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler from the 1935 novella by James M. Cain. Walter Neff ( Fred MacMurray) is an insurance representative whose obsession with bombshell femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson ( Barbara Stanwyck) allows her to manipulate him into helping ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
Double Indemnity is sometimes seen as the first film noir. This is misleading, although the term film noir is an elusive one. There were movies made earlier that are regarded as film noirs, and ...
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Billy Wilder's 1944 masterpiece of fatalism and seduction, based on James M. Cain's novel and Raymond Chandler's script. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck star as a salesman and a housewife who plot a deadly insurance scam in 1940s Los Angeles.
