It's definitely hard to pin down a personal favourite Wilder film, though I tend towards his ...
Double Indemnity
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.
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Double Indemnity
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Status
Released
Release Date
Jul 6, 1944
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
User Score
81%
Original Title
Double Indemnity
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Director
Billy Wilder
Budget
$927,262
Revenue
$2,500,000
Description
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.
Cast
Crew
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Reviews
A banner movie from film noir's classic era.
Double Indemnity is directed by Billy Wil...
Perhaps the single best example of a film noir movie, Double Indemnity (1944), stars Fre...
Very well done film noir from the 1940s with great performances by Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwy...
So poor old Tom Powers is married to the cold and calculating "Phyllis" (Barbara Stanwy...
A magnificent "noir" with great actors, which was unlucky at the awards, and wa...