Double Indemnity 1944

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 107 min

genre: crime

theme: film noir

director: Billy Wilder

Score: 8 / 10

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.

Plot

Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession for claims manager Barton Keyes.

Cast

More details

author	Billy Wilder James M. Cain Raymond Chandler
contentLocation	Los Angeles
director	Billy Wilder
editor	Doane Harrison
events	capital punishment
genre	crime thriller
keywords	break dead body dictaphone double indemnity id insurance company insurance policy insurance salesman kill life insurance life insurance policy listen make up medical school mourn murder phyllis dietrichson plaster cast record sale suicide summon train station walk wound
musicBy	Miklós Rózsa
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Joseph Sistrom
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures
theme	film noir