Double Indemnity poster
Director Billy Wilder
Screenplay Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler

Double Indemnity

Tagline: It's love and murder at first sight!

Release Date: 1944-07-06

Duration: 107 minutes

Synopsis

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Casting

  • Raymond Chandler
    Man Reading Book (uncredited)
  • Barbara Stanwyck
    Phyllis Dietrichson
  • Fred MacMurray
    Walter Neff
  • Edward G. Robinson
    Barton Keyes
  • John Berry
    Bit Part (uncredited)
  • Bess Flowers
    Norton's Secretary
  • Douglas Spencer
    Lou Schwartz (uncredited)
  • Porter Hall
    Mr. Jackson
  • Richard Gaines
    Edward S. Norton Jr.
  • Eddie Hall
    Man in Drug Store (uncredited)