Director Billy Wilder engaged hard-boiled writer Raymond Chandler to help him adapt James M. Cain's novel Double Indemnity to the screen. The seamy story of a housewife who schemes with an insurance adjustor to kill her husband for the payout, the film became practically the last word in film noir aesthetics and moral vision, forever casting sunny Southern California as a place of dark shadows.
35mm, b/w, 106 min. Production: Paramount Pictures, Inc. Distribution: Paramount Pictures, Inc. Producer: Joseph Sistrom. Director: Billy Wilder. Based on the novel Double Indemnity by James M. Cain. Screenwriter: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler. Cinematographer: John Seitz. Editor: Doane Harrison. Composer: Miklos Rozsa. With: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather.
