Apr 24,1944
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train-track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man .
| nudity | Suggested MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Violence and Smoking Phyllis seen briefly, clad demurely in a towel. Otherwise her seductive affair with Walter Neff is all talk, mood, and innuendo. A scene of adultery is implied. A married woman visits another man's apartment. They embrace and kiss. The scene fades to a later moment where the man seated on a sofa, smoking, and the woman seated on the other end of the sofa, fixing her makeup. |
| violence | One man murders another with his bare hands, offscreen. Two people are shot at close range. Two characters discuss and plot another man's murder throughout the film. A woman describes her husband's physical abuse. |
| profanity | A few "darns" but that's it. |
| alcohol | Quite a bit of smoking, cigarettes, and cigars. |
| frightening | The overall mood of this film is very shady, dark, seductive, scheming, and dismal. |
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