Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber, James Adamson, John Barry, Raymond Chandler, Edmond O'Brien, Kernan Cripps, Betty Farrington, Beth Flowers, Eddie Hall, Teala Loring, George Meeker, Sam McDaniel, Billy Mitchell, Clarence Muse, Constance Purdy, Floyd Shackelford
1944
United States
Completed
English
107 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asDouble Indemnity，is aUnited StatesProducerwomen sex，At1944Released in year
。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating8.5(For reference only)。
Walter Neff (played by Fred MacMurray) is a successful insurance agent who returns to the office at night to begin telling his story on a tape recorder... Neff visits the home of Mr. Dietrichson to secure his insurance policy, but finds that Mr. Dietrichson is not there. Instead, he encounters Mr. Dietrichson's new wife, Phyllis Dietrichson (played by Barbara Stanwyck). The beautiful Phyllis makes Neff feel uneasy, and she begins to talk about the many faults of her husband. During a second visit, Neff finally succumbs to his desires and agrees to participate in Phyllis’s plan to kill her husband. Neff plans to create the illusion that Mr. Dietrichson accidentally fell while taking a train, in order to claim "double indemnity". Everything goes very smoothly; Mr. Dietrichson dies, and both Neff and Phyllis seem to secure their love and wealth. However, Neff's friend, insurance investigator Barton Keyes (played by Edward G. Robinson), suspects something is amiss and begins to investigate the entire incident... This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by James M. Cain, published in 1943, and co-written by director Billy Wilder and detective novelist Raymond Chandler. It received 7 nominations at the 17th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.