Double Indemnity (1944)

I am so sorry to all my devote fans (all 6 of you) for not writing in such a long time. I must be honest I really didn't want to start the next few movies on the list. I finally sucked it up and watched the next few movies on the list. Here is Double Indemnity:


It's no secret that I don't like being pulled over. It's because I never get pulled over for being a bad driver. I always get pulled over because I forgot to put my registration stickers on my license plate. My least favorite part about being pulled over is not the actual pulling over, but that the officer will pull me over for one thing and then give me a ticket for something else entirely. For example a while back I got pulled over for, you guessed it, registration. As if he was doing me a favor the officer didn't give me a ticket for it. What a nice guy, right? WRONG! He was more than happy to give me a ticket for no insurance. His smug expression said it all, "Got you punk!" In my defense, I had insurance I just didn't put my proof in my glove box. Also it is important to note that most of my pull over experiences happened in high school. Why am I bringing this up? Well because Double Indemnity is about a life insurance policy, and a murder plot...the connection was kind of a stretch, I realize that.

Walter Neff is a honest insurance agent. On a routine trip to the house of a man that owns car insurance with his company Walter meets Phyllis. Her husband is gone, but she is interested in finding out more about life insurance so she invites him in. Maybe it's just the way that strangers talked to each other back then, but almost immediately Walter and Phyllis begin dropping hints that they both want to do the no pants dance together. Long story short they decide that they are going to off Phyllis' husband and collect on a life insurance policy. A life insurance policy, I might add, that he didn't even know he had. Walter covers the plan from every angle so as to throw the company's claims investigator off the scent. Despite all their planning, the investigator feels that something isn't quite right.

This movie was very predictable. I was surprised by their clever plan, but I knew in the first few minutes of the movie how it was going to play out. I suppose that's what I get for watching CSI.

Note: I apologize for the poor quality of this clip. It's the only one I could find:



The movie wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. It was made while WWII was still going on, so with that considered it's pretty impressive. Even with that in mind it doesn't make the movie amazing. All in all this was an average movie.

The bottom line:
Rating: 3.5
Would I own it? I really don't see that happening.
Would I recommend it? I guess...it's good as far as insurance movies go.