

Double Indemnity
It's love and murder at first sight!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $927.3K
- Box office
- $2.5M
- Language
- English
- california
- seduction
- housewife
- insurance fraud
- stepdaughter
- femme fatale
- film noir
- murder
- life insurance
- black and white
- insurance investigator
- insurance agent
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNorman, Oklahoma14 Jun 1944
- PremiereBaltimore, Maryland3 Jul 1944
- Theatrical6 Jul 1944
- PhysicalNRDVD28 Jan 1998
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical15 Sept 1944
- Theatrical (limited)PG30 Jun 2018
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG1 Dec 1944
- PhysicalPGDVD6 Oct 2006
ChinaCN
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival13 Jun 2026
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP7 Mar 1946
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT626 May 2008
GreeceGR
- TheatricalRe-Issue29 Aug 2024
HungaryHU
- Theatrical629 May 1947
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+12 Dec 1953
NetherlandsNL
- Physical9Blu-ray25 Jun 2012
- Theatrical9Re-release 5 Jul 2018
PolandPL
- Theatrical121 Jan 1966
SpainES
- Theatrical3 Jun 1947
- PhysicalA9 Jul 2006
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Double Indemnity was released on 6 July 1944.
Audience reviews
6- T10/10
talisencrw
9/22/2016
It's definitely hard to pin down a personal favourite Wilder film, though I tend towards his earlier masterworks such as 'The Lost Weekend', 'Sunset Boulevard'...and THIS. He was one of the finest at getting straight through the bullshit and to the heart of all things noir (as the immortal Jean-Luc Godard stated, 'All I need to make a film is a man, a girl and a gun'). Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favourite actr…
- J10/10
John Chard
11/5/2017
A banner movie from film noir's classic era. Double Indemnity is directed by Billy Wilder and Wilder co-adapts the screenplay with Raymond Chandler from the novella written by James M. Cain. It stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. Music is by Miklos Rozsa and cinematography by John F. Seitz. For a film lover such as myself it feels redundant writing a review for Double Indemnity, becau…
- D10/10
dogstir
2/23/2021
Perhaps the single best example of a film noir movie, _Double Indemnity_ (1944), stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Based on a novel written by James Cain, the screenplay was co-written by Billy Wilder and the amazing Raymond Chandler. Set in 1938 California, the story is based on the true-life 1927 murder of a married Queens, New York woman's husband who was killed by the woman's boyf…
- J9/10
JPV852
5/22/2022
Very well done film noir from the 1940s with great performances by Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson along with good photography and direction from Billy Wilder. I've seen this one before but it's been at least 20 years though coincidentally, a scene from this was in a movie I recently watched (another re-watch) in Femme Fatale. **4.5/5**
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
6/30/2022
So poor old Tom Powers is married to the cold and calculating "Phyllis" (Barbara Stanwyck). When she starts to have an affair with his charismatic insurance broker "Walter" (Fred MacMurray) the two alight on a cunning plan to dispose of him and to claim the life insurance money. Being in the know about these things, "Walter" figures out a way in which they can double the payout. With their hands still rubbing togethe…
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