Double Indemnity (1944) IMDB Rating: 8.5
Storyline: In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman for the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, 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, do not buy the story and suspect that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.
