Double Indemnity
by James M. Cainliterary work· published 1943
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Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.
Adaptations (2)
Double Indemnity has been adapted into 2 films (1944).
Double Indemnity1944 · film · 107 min · dir. Billy Wilder · IMDb ↗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.
Double Indemnity? · film · 74 min · dir. Jack Smight · IMDb ↗IMDb4.6A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
