double indemnity Movie (1944)
An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
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, and they have an affair. 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. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
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Storyline
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, and they have an affair. 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. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
Details
- Rated: PASSED
- Runtime: 1:47 hours
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Writer: Billy Wilder (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (screenplay), James M. Cain (from the novel by)
- Actors: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations
- Production Company: Paramount Pictures
- ASIN: 6305077517
- Year Released: 1944
- Release Date: Apr 20, 1944
- DVD Date: Oct 9, 2000
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