Double Indemnity
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Writer: Billy Wilder; Raymond Chandler
- Producer: Buddy G. DeSylva; Joseph Sistrom
CGiii Comment
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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Cast & Characters
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff;
Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson;
Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes;
Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson;
Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson;
Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson;
Byron Barr as Nino Zachetti;
Richard Gaines as Edward S. Norton, Jr.;
Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Garlopis;
John Philliber as Joe Peters;
James Adamson as Pullman Porter;
John Berry as Bit Part;
Raymond Chandler as Man Reading Book Outside Keyes' Office;
Edmund Cobb as Train Conductor;
Kernan Cripps as Conductor