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Double Indemnity

8.1

Released July 06, 1944Runtime 1h 47min

It's love and murder at first sight!

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $927,262
Revenue: $2,500,000
Profit/Loss: $1,572,738

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Cast

Fred MacMurrayWalter Neff

Barbara StanwyckPhyllis Dietrichson

Edward G. RobinsonBarton Keyes

Porter HallMr. Jackson

Jean HeatherLola Dietrichson

Tom PowersMr. Dietrichson

Byron BarrNino Zachetti

Richard GainesEdward S. Norton Jr.

Fortunio BonanovaSam Garlopis

John PhilliberJoe Pete

John BerryBit Part (uncredited)

Raymond ChandlerMan Reading Book (uncredited)

Edmund CobbTrain Conductor (uncredited)

Kernan CrippsConductor (uncredited)

Bess FlowersNorton's Secretary (uncredited)

Eddie HallMan in Drug Store (uncredited)

Teala LoringPacific All-Risk Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Sam McDanielCharlie the Garage Attendant (uncredited)

Billy MitchellPullman Porter (uncredited)

Clarence MuseMan (uncredited)

Douglas SpencerLou Schwartz (uncredited)

Harold GarrisonRedcap (uncredited)

James AdamsonPullman Porter (uncredited)

Betty FarringtonDietrichsons' Maid Nettie (uncredited)

George MagrillMan (uncredited)

Constance PurdyShopper in Market (uncredited)

Dick RushPullman Conductor (uncredited)

Floyd ShackelfordPullman Porter (uncredited)

Oscar SmithPullman Porter (uncredited)

Miriam NelsonKeyes' Secretary (uncredited)

Mona FreemanSecretary (uncredited)

Florence WixTrain Passenger at Station (uncredited)

Crew

Billy WilderDirector

Charles C. ColemanAssistant Director

Raymond ChandlerScreenplay

James M. CainNovel

Billy WilderScreenplay

Buddy G. DeSylvaExecutive Producer

Joseph SistromProducer

Harvey ClermontCasting

Al TrosinAssistant Production Manager

Bertram C. GrangerSet Decoration

Edith HeadCostume Design

John F. SeitzDirector of Photography

Hans DreierArt Direction

Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer

Hal PereiraArt Direction

Farciot EdouartVisual Effects

Jack GageDialect Coach

Charles GemoraMakeup Artist

Robert EwingMakeup Artist

Doane HarrisonSupervising Film Editor

Eugene ZadorOrchestrator

Wally WestmoreMakeup Artist

Doane HarrisonEditor

Ed HendersonStill Photographer

Hollis BarnesHairstylist

Loren L. RyderSound Recordist

Jack ColcondaProps

Harlow StengelCamera Operator

Stanley CooleySound Recordist

David S. HallProduction Design

David S. HallArt Direction

Jim CottrellProps

Walter OberstSound Recordist

Walter McLeodKey Grip

Otto PierceCamera Operator

Chet StaffordElectrician

Neva BourneWardrobe Master

Eugene JoseffOther

Bill RabbWardrobe Master

Lee HallAssistant Editor

Louis KaufmanMusician

Dorothy StatonStand In

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Reviews

It's definitely hard to pin down a personal favourite Wilder film, though I tend towards his earlier masterworks such as 'The Lost Weekend', 'Sunset Boulevard'...and THIS. He was one of the finest at getting straight through the bullshit and to the heart of all things noir (as the immortal Jean-Luc...

A banner movie from film noir's classic era. Double Indemnity is directed by Billy Wilder and Wilder co-adapts the screenplay with Raymond Chandler from the novella written by James M. Cain. It stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. Music is by Miklos Rozsa and cinematogr...

Perhaps the single best example of a film noir movie, _Double Indemnity_ (1944), stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Based on a novel written by James Cain, the screenplay was co-written by Billy Wilder and the amazing Raymond Chandler. Set in 1938 California, the sto...

Very well done film noir from the 1940s with great performances by Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson along with good photography and direction from Billy Wilder. I've seen this one before but it's been at least 20 years though coincidentally, a scene from this was in a movie I...

So poor old Tom Powers is married to the cold and calculating "Phyllis" (Barbara Stanwyck). When she starts to have an affair with his charismatic insurance broker "Walter" (Fred MacMurray) the two alight on a cunning plan to dispose of him and to claim the life insurance money. Being in the know a...

by Filipe Manuel Neto

**A magnificent "noir" with great actors, which was unlucky at the awards, and was immortalized by the public, surviving fresh to this day.** I've previously had the opportunity to mention that I really like noir films, and this is another one that I had the pleasure of seeing and will save for ...