Double Indemnity (1944) Nominated for 7 Oscars in 1945 but a winner of none, this pioneer film noir, directed by Bill Wilder won many praises from many revered directors like Alfred Hitchcock. It also raised many eyebrows for its conniving topic. Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray, one of the highest grossing actor then), an insurance agent stops at a customer's house (Mr Dietrichson) to remind him about his lapsed policy. The client's drop-dead gorgeous wife, Phyllis, (Barbara Stanwyck, the highest earning lady in America at that time) shows up, and our hero falls foolishly all over her. One thing leads to other, and our femme fatale tells him all about her sob story and miserable life as a second wife to her husband and his daughter from his first wife. The couple duped the husband to sign a life assurance policy without his knowledge with plans to kill off the husband and claim the money. The clause in the contract stated that the claim is doubled if the death is accidental -...
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