Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder · 1944 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An insurance salesman calls on a client's wife about a car policy and comes away agreeing to write an accident plan on her husband without the husband's knowledge. The scheme has to be built against the one man likely to see through it, the claims investigator who is his closest friend. Desire walking straight down the line.

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Lineage

• adapts ↑ Double Indemnity
  James M. Cain · 1936 CE · Novel
• ↓ Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder · 1950 CE · Film — reworks this

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