Double Indemnity
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.
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (screenplay), James M. Cain (from the novel by)
Production: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1944
MetaScore: 95/100
ImdbRating: 8.3
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 06 Jul 1944
Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
Movie Video Clips
00:28
I killed him
00:39
I love you
02:07
My husband
03:31
Oughta take a look at the statistics on suicide some time
00:34
I guess so
00:26
Neff is the name
00:39
Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong
00:15
Do I laugh now
00:24
What was his name
00:17
We're both rotten
00:22
How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell...
01:48
Dear Keyes
00:49
I picked you for the job
01:10
That was all there was to it
00:37
Tomorrow morning would suit me better
00:36
I was thinking about that dame upstairs
06:26
Just came from Norton's office
00:28
Born right here in Los Angeles
00:38
Get out of here
00:20
I get the general idea
00:39
It's just like the first time I came here
00:37
Up in Medford
01:12
Now get outta here before I throw my desk at you
00:11
You're all washed up
00:34
What's the matter
03:27
There it is
02:07
Aren't you
00:28
I was just fixing some ice tea
00:21
That's what I said
00:55
The guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlour...
00:18
Dietrichson
01:25
A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth 100
00:21
I'm a Medford man
00:32
What do the police figure
00:56
This Dietrichson business
00:09
Hello there
00:26
There is a widespread feeling that just because a man has a...
01:27
About six months ago
02:08
Hundreds of claims come to this desk
00:48
The insurance ran out on the 15th
Movie Quotes
Movie Cast
Walter Neff - Fred MacMurray
Phyllis Dietrichson - Barbara Stanwyck
Barton Keyes - Edward G. Robinson
Mr. Jackson - Porter Hall
Lola Dietrichson - Jean Heather
Mr. Dietrichson - Tom Powers
Nino Zachetti - Byron Barr
Mr. Norton - Richard Gaines
Sam Gorlopis - Fortunio Bonanova
Joe Pete - John Philliber
Pullman Porter - James Adamson
Bit Part - John Berry
Man Reading Magazine Outside Keyes' Office - Raymond Chandler
Train Conductor - Edmund Cobb
Conductor - Kernan Cripps
Nettie - Dietrichsons' Maid - Betty Farrington
Norton's Secretary - Bess Flowers
Redcap - Harold Garrison
Man in Drug Store - Eddie Hall
Pacific All-Risk Telephone Operator - Teala Loring
Man - George Magrill
Charlie - Garage Attendant - Sam McDaniel
Pullman Porter - Billy Mitchell
Man - Clarence Muse
Keyes' Secretary - Miriam Nelson
Shopper in Market - Constance Purdy
Pullman Conductor - Dick Rush
Pullman Porter - Floyd Shackelford
Pullman Porter - Oscar Smith
Lou Schwartz - Douglas Spencer