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Double Indemnity

8.1/10

Rating

107 min

Runtime

1944

Release Year

Billy Wilder

Director

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather

Quick Synopsis

In a mid-20th century American city, an insurance salesman becomes involved with a discontented housewife who persuades him to help her carry out a plan to commit insurance fraud by murdering her husband. As they execute their scheme, a claims investigator at the insurance company begins to suspect that something is wrong and starts investigating the case, putting the salesman and the housewife under increasing pressure.

Detailed Synopsis of Double Indemnity

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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