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  1. Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.

  2. A Los Angeles insurance representative is seduced by an alluring housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator. 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 ...

  3. Explore how Billy Wilder's 1944 masterpiece uses film noir's aesthetic elements, such as low-key lighting, voice-over, and dialogue, to create a mood of danger and attraction. Learn how the film portrays the characters' psychological states and moral conflicts through visual and narrative techniques.

  4. In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara...

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    • Fred Macmurray
    • Billy Wilder
    • Crime, Drama
  5. Dec 20, 1998 · A classic noir film about an insurance salesman and a seductive woman who plot to kill her husband for money. Roger Ebert analyzes the characters, the dialogue, the style and the ending of Billy Wilder's adaptation of James M. Cain's novel.

  6. Double Indemnity (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  7. Double Indemnity, American film noir, released in 1944, that was considered the quintessential movie of its genre. It followed the time-honoured noir plotline of a man undone by an evil woman. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film was adapted by director Billy.

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