Double Indemnity

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Director:

Billy Wilder

Writer:

Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain

Release Date:

Sep 6, 1944

Runtime:

1hr 47m

Synopsis

This essential Hollywood film noir is about an insurance salesman lured to his doom by a predatory femme fatale.

Cast

  • Fred MacMurray
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Porter Hall
  • Jean Heather
  • Tom Powers
  • Byron Barr
  • Richard Gaines
  • Fortunio Bonanova
  • John Philliber

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  • Aug 26, 2020

    cautionary tale for simps everywhere

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    fran hoepfner
    fran hoepfner
    Feb 19, 2019

    Every time he says "baby" take a drink.

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    matt lynch
    matt lynch
    Oct 1, 2018

    every film noir: this femme fatale has seduced and murdered 17 people me: and i hope she seduces and murders me next!

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    Ellie ✨
    Ellie ✨
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    Jul 19, 2015

    Gah, the dialogue in this movie is soooo good. Phyllis: Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? He'll be in then. Walter: Who? Phyllis: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you? Walter: Yeah, I was. But I'm sort of getting over…

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    Bryan Espitia
    Bryan Espitia
    Aug 12, 2019

    every time walter says ‘baby’, the movie gets faster

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    stephanie ✨
    stephanie ✨
    Apr 6, 2020

    oh to be a femme fatale ruining men's lives and making a fortune from it

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    sophie
    sophie
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    Mar 17, 2020

    they just don't make 'em like this anymore man

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    maria
    maria
    Jul 11, 2022

    i can fix her

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    san
    san
    Apr 7, 2013

    All you need to make a movie is a girl, a gun, and a life insurance policy.

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    Paul Anthony Johnson
    Paul Anthony Johnson

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Metacritic

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Based on 18 Critics
8.6

USER SCORE (76)

Universal acclaim based on 76 Reviews
100

This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films. Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson—a platinum blonde who wears tight white sweaters, an anklet, and sleazy-kinky shoes—is perhaps the best acted and the most fixating of all the slutty, cold-blooded femmes fatales of the film-noir genre.

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker
100

To describe the story is to miss the nuances that make it tantalizing.

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
100

Film noir is the most intoxicating of Hollywood cocktails, and none is more potent than Double Indemnity...It breaks the rules of filmmaking with breathtaking confidence and is all the more satisfying for

Metacritic review by Marc Lee
Marc Lee
The Telegraph

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is Double Indemnity (1944)?
The movie is 1hr 47min long.
What's Double Indemnity (1944) about?
This essential Hollywood film noir is about an insurance salesman lured to his doom by a predatory femme fatale.
Who's the cast of Double Indemnity (1944)?
  • Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff
  • Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
  • Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes
  • Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson
  • Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson
  • Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson
  • Byron Barr as Nino Zachetti
  • Richard Gaines as Mr. Norton
  • Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Gorlopis
  • John Philliber as Joe Pete
Who's the director behind Double Indemnity (1944)?
Billy Wilder directed Double Indemnity (1944).
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