Double Indemnity [DVD] [1944]

Classic adaptation of James M. Cain’s hardboiled noir novel by director Billy Wilder and author Raymond Chandler. Insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) calls on the house of femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) in an effort to renew her husband’s insurance policy. A direct attraction sparks between the two, and progressively Phyllis seduces Walter into conspiring along with her to murder her husband, now provided with a double indemnity insurance clause. The murder is carried out as planned, however the couple then find themselves growing increasingly more suspicious of one another as they get closer to collecting the money. When Walter’s boss, relentless investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), starts to look into the policy, Walter and Phyllis’ steely unravel begins to falter.