Double Indemnity
Directed by: Billy Wilder
1944 107 min DCP
Part of: Billy Wilder: Ready for His Close-Up
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Based on the bleak novel by James M. Cain, and adapted by the master crime writer Raymond Chandler, this is the story of a straightlaced insurance agent (Fred MacMurray) caught in the web of the most fatale of the femme fatales, Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). She wants her husband dead, and he knows just how to pull the crime off with double the return on his life insurance policy. Enter Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a dogged insurance inspector, whose instincts and nose for trouble spell doom for the deadly pair. Wilder was most proud of DOUBLE INDEMNITY, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
1944
107 min
Thriller