Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel o
Theatrical release poster
Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes
Wilder supposedly chose a bad wig for Stanwyck to underscore Phyllis's "sleazy phoniness".
Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in Liberty magazine in 1936 as an eight part serial, and later republished as one of
Cover of the first separate edition (Avon Books)