Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder,
1944,
107’
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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“Dear Sir. I had the very great pleasure of seeing a lovely picture the other night and would like to say that the two most important words after ‘Double Indemnity’ are ‘Billy Wilder.”
Alfred Hitchcock in a letter to Billy Wilder1
- 1Stephen Rebello, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train (London: Hachette, 2025).
