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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.
Sep 4, 2021 · Watch the classic film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Raymond Chandler, based on James M. Cain's novel. Read reviews from viewers who praise the story, the performances, and the cinematography of this 1944 masterpiece.
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.
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...
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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.
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.)
