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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.
Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death.
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.
- Lee Pfeiffer
A classic film noir about a murderous scheme involving an insurance salesman and a femme fatale. See the 97% Tomatometer, 95% Audience Score, critic reviews, official clips, photos, and more on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Crime, Drama
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.
