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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Release Date:
6 September 1944 (USA) moreTagline:
It's Love And Murder At First Sight ! morePlot:
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 1 win moreNewsDesk:
(9 articles)
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A film noir masterpiece that received no less than seven Oscar nominations moreUS TV Schedule:
| Thur. July 16 | 9:00 AM | TCM |
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| 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 Peters | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| George Anderson | ... | Warden at Execution (scenes deleted) | |
| Al Bridge | ... | Execution Chamber Guard (scenes deleted) | |
| Edward Hearn | ... | Warden's Secretary (scenes deleted) | |
| Boyd Irwin | ... | First Doctor at Execution (scenes deleted) | |
| George Melford | ... | Second Doctor at Execution (scenes deleted) | |
| William O'Leary | ... | Chaplain at Execution (scenes deleted) | |
| Lee Shumway | ... | Door Guard at Execution (scenes deleted) | |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
107 min | Argentina:110 min | Canada:90 min (Ontario)Country:
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EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Certification:
Germany:16 | Norway:16 | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated | USA:Approved | UK:PGFun Stuff
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In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #29 Greatest Movie of All Time. moreGoofs:
Continuity: After Neff meets with the President of his company, he returns to his apartment and places a folder on the chair to the right of the door. When Keyes comes to the door, after Neff's brief phone conversation, the folder is nowhere to be seen. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in "Quantum Leap: One Strobe Over the Line - June 15, 1965 (#3.4)" (1990) moreSoundtrack:
Tangerine moreFAQ
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There were some superb thrillers coming out of Hollywood in the forties which did not rely on the private eye conventions but somehow the best of them were spread throughout by the same cynicism, the same realism, the same ruthless suspense
Best of all was Wilder's "Double Identity." It was based on a real-life assassination in New York in 1927, when a wife and her lover killed the husband for his insurance money
In the film, a near-breaking-point tension was reached and sustained in the passion of an insurance salesman and a passionately sensual femme fatale an intense desire for each other and for money; in the murder of the poor husband; and in their useless attempts to escape the ability of a fast-talking investigator