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Double Indemnity

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall View All

Crew

Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Billy Wilder (Director), Raymond Chandler (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 14th, 1944

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

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7 Question about the plot and ending to Double Indemnity (1944).

SPOILER After seeing the movie I was wondering why Neff came to Phyllis's house to kill her, but then decides to tell her, his plan and then turn his back to her allowing her to shoot him. Could h...

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Cobpyth
In a noir film, where characters often make twisty decisions and immoral moves, it's all the more interesting and enriching to hear the motives explained by the characters themselves.

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Citizen Rules
Premise: A cocky insurance salesman, Walter Niff (Fred MacMurray) encounters a notorious married woman, Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck)....she seduces him into murdering her husband for the insurance claim which is a double indemnity clause.

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