Double Indemnity (1944)
- Directed by
- Billy Wilder
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film, flashback film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 8.1 of 10 from 2,055 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An insurance salesman gets drawn into a scheme with a woman to kill her husband and collect a double indemnity payout. His suspicious claims manager starts to close in on the truth, revealing the consequences of their plot.
tensesuspensefuldarkcynicalnoirishslow-burnmanipulativeclaustrophobic
What happens
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. The film stars an insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who plots with a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) to kill her husband in order to claim a life insurance payment, arousing the suspicion of claims manager Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson). The title refers to a "double indemnity" clause which doubles life insurance payouts when death occurs in a statistically rare manner. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Widely regarded as a classic, Double Indemnity is often cited as having set the standard for film noir and as one of the greatest films of all time. In 1992, the U.S. Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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