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Double Indemnity
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Passed
1944
1h 47m
Drama
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Mystery
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8.3
97%
95%
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An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Cast of Double Indemnity
Fred MacMurray
Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck
Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson
Barton Keyes
Porter Hall
Mr. Jackson
Jean Heather
Lola Dietrichson
Tom Powers
Mr. Dietrichson
Byron Barr
Nino Zachetti
Richard Gaines
Edward S. Norton Jr.
Fortunio Bonanova
Sam Garlopis
John Philliber
Joe Pete
John Berry
Bit Part (uncredited)
Raymond Chandler
Man Reading Book (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
Conductor (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Norton's Secretary (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Man in Drug Store (uncredited)
Teala Loring
Pacific All-Risk Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel
Charlie the Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Billy Mitchell
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Clarence Muse
Man (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer
Lou Schwartz (uncredited)
Harold Garrison
Redcap (uncredited)
James Adamson
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Dietrichsons' Maid Nettie (uncredited)
George Magrill
Man (uncredited)
Constance Purdy
Shopper in Market (uncredited)
Dick Rush
Pullman Conductor (uncredited)
Floyd Shackelford
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Oscar Smith
Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Miriam Nelson
Keyes' Secretary (uncredited)
Mona Freeman
Secretary (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Train Passenger at Station (uncredited)
Double Indemnity Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
February 12, 2025
A film with dialogue so 'good' it's terrible. Dated beyond repair, this feels like the inspiration for the parody classic Police Squad/The Naked Gun but it now has the danger of becoming unintentionally funnier due it's grating schlock wittyness. It still seems to rank in on the upper-quarters of 'best of' lists but hopefully more for its impact and influence rather than anything else. Avoid...or at least watch while doing something else.
AV Club
Noel Murray
In spite of the mundane locations, the movie takes place just outside reality, in a land of stark shadows and snappy talk. It's a world of rotten people, jumping at the chance to lose what soul they have left.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
Barbara Stanwyck has given many interesting portrayals of femininity on the screen, but she has never presented as subtle and indelible a characterization as the one of Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity."
AskMen.com
Radheyan Simonpillai
Writer/director Billy Wilder cements all the hallmarks of a style that comes into its own with this wicked and suspenseful portrait of capitalist greed and post-war anxiety.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Ida Belle Hicks
To director Billy Wilder goes the credit for the suspense of the picture Its excitement stays at high pitch and its tension keeps a spectator at seats edge throughout.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Few other directors have made so many films that were so taut, savvy, cynical and, in many different ways and tones, funny.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Wilder trades Cain's sun-rot imagery for conventional film noir stylings, but the atmosphere of sexual entrapment survives.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Brilliantly and toughly directed by Billy Wilder.
Chicago Tribune
Albert Goldberg
Everything about this picture is superb.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Double Indemnity is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Double Indemnity is a ruthless and poignant cornucopia of the details that command our lives.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This shrewd, smoothly tawdry thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, is one of the high points of nineteen-forties films.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
Double Indemnity is a mystery story only in the sense that you can't wait to see what's going to happen next.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Such folks as delight in murder stories for their academic elegance alone should find this one steadily diverting, despite its monotonous pace and length.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
This expert night of the Hollywood soul is such a genre axiom it practically scans like a mid-'40s shopper's catalogue for noiristes ...
Variety
Variety Staff
MacMurray has seldom given a better performance. It is somewhat different from his usually light roles, but is always plausible and played with considerable restraint.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
A powerful, ruthless and almost cruelly exciting picture in which Fred MacMurray and Bareara Stanwyck do the finest acting of their respective careers.
Slant Magazine
Dan Callahan
An accepted classic and archetypal film noir, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is visually drab and flabby around the edges.
The Hollywood Reporter
THR Staff
As you cannot lay down such a book until it has been read through, neither then can you shake off the witchery exerted over you by this film from its very opening scene.
Austin Chronicle
Fred MacMurray like you've never seen him.
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