Double Indemnity

About Double Indemnity

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.

Double Indemnity (1944) is a crime thriller film directed by Billy Wilder. Its themes are film noir, seduction, femme fatale, and housewife.

Fred MacMurray takes the lead as Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson, Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes, and Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson. At 107 minutes long, it arrived in July 1944.

The screenplay is by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

Shadow of a Doubt, The Last Seduction, and The Big White make useful companions to Double Indemnity, all filed under black and white and california. TMDB voters put it at 8.1 out of 10 across 2,129 votes and it carries a NR rating.