Both of whom concoct a twisted scheme to collect the benefits of a insurance policy. A scheming wife (Barbara Stanwyck) lures an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray, though Alan Ladd, George Raft, Brian Donlevy, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, and Fredric March were all up for the leading role) into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. ![]() This Billy Wilder's first thriller is one of the finest Noir film ever made. Vintage Noir Film with gritty interpretation, atmospheric settings, crackling dialogue throughout and powerhouse filmmaking. Reviewed by ma-cortes 8 / 10 Absorbing and worthy suspense film about blackmails, killing, corruption and strong intrigue 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. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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.
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