Movie: Double Indemnity (1944)

“In 1938, the experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. Walter Neff meets the seductive wife of one of his client, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband Dietrichson to receive the prize of an accident insurance policy and Walter plots a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on the trails of a train, the police accepts the evidence of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter’s best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the version and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

  • Director: Billy Wilder
  • Release Date: 6 September 1944 (USA)
  • Run Time: 107 min | Argentina:110 min | Canada:90 min (Ontario)
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Crime , Film-Noir , Thriller

Tagline: It’s Love And Murder At First Sight !

Trivia: In the early 1970s Paramount had plans to remake Double Indemnity (1944) with Robert Redford in the Fred MacMurray role. The project never got off the ground.

Goofs: Continuity: After Neff meets with the President of his company, he returns to his apartment and places a folder on the chair to the right of the door. When Keyes comes to the door, after Neff’s brief phone conversation, the folder is nowhere to be seen.

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