Double Indemnity

# Double Indemnity

• 1944
• 1h 47m
• An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
• Director
• Billy Wilder
• Writers
• Billy Wilder
• Raymond Chandler
• James M. Cain
• Stars
• Fred MacMurray
• Barbara Stanwyck
• Edward G. Robinson
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Pauline Kael
This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films. Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson—a platinum blonde who wears tight white sweaters, an anklet, and sleazy-kinky shoes—is perhaps the best acted and the most fixating of all the slutty, cold-blooded femmes fatales of the film-noir genre.

Roger Ebert
To describe the story is to miss the nuances that make it tantalizing.

Kim Newman
Superlative crime yarn adapted with precision and skill from the classic James M. Cain novel.