USA 1944, 107 min, Dir: Billy Wilder
Chosen by the November Gallery Artist
80th Anniversary
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), an experienced salesman meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter’s best friend Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
