Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity (1944) is a Paramount Pictures film noir you can watch online on iFILM. Director Billy Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with Raymond Chandler — who even has a small on-screen cameo — adapting James M. Cain's tight crime novella. Fred MacMurray plays insurance salesman Walter Neff; Barbara Stanwyck is the calculating Phyllis Dietrichson.

Walter stops by to renew a car policy and leaves with a murder scheme in his head. Phyllis wants her husband dead and the accident-clause payout doubled. Walter knows the plan is full of holes. He goes along anyway. Edward G. Robinson plays claims investigator Barton Keyes — a human lie detector who is already picking up a scent, one careful question at a time.

The film earned seven Academy Award nominations and remains one of the most studied noirs in cinema history, a precise study in greed and self-destruction. Stream Double Indemnity (1944) in full online on iFILM.