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Billy Wilder

Buddy DeSylva Joseph Sistrom

Billy Wilder Raymond Chandler

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson

Miklós Rózsa

John F. Seitz

Doane Harrison (sup)

Paramount Pictures (original) Universal Studios (current)

September 6, 1944

107 minutes

United States

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.