Double Indemnity

In the 1944 classic film noir, 'Double Indemnity', an insurance salesman, Walter Neff, is enticed by the attractive Phyllis Dietrichson into a scheme to murder her husband and collect his accident insurance. The film is an exploration of greed, duplicity, and guilt.

• Considered the first true classic of the film noir genre.
• Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder had many disputes during writing.
• Barbara Stanwyck used blonde wig to depict her character as artificial.
• Edward G. Robinson never knew he played a key role.
• Title refers to a clause in insurance contracts.

• I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman.
• Murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle.
• We're both rotten.
• Only you're a little more rotten.
• Know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? I'll tell ya. 'Cause the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.