Double Indemnity

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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Double Indemnity is a 1944 American English-language Crime Drama movie starring Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr and Douglas Spencer. The movie is based on Double Indemnity by James M. Cain. Paramount Pictures was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Joseph Sistrom. The movie is directed by Billy Wilder. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Double Indemnity was released on 24th October 1944 and takes a screen time of 107 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Double Indemnity was made on a budget of $0 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. Cinematography was done by John Seitz and editing by Doane Harrison. The music was composed by Mikl S R Zsa.
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