Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

murder disguised as accident, femme fatale, double cross, insurance, based on novel, los angeles california, insurance fraud, infidelity, murder of husband, crime gone awry, marriage, murder, villainess played by lead actress, husband wife relationship, flashback, told in flashback, title spoken by character, insurance company, corpse, eye witness

Short Review

This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films.

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