Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray stars in this classical film noir from 1944. Director: Billy Wilder.
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) is working for an insurance company and comes to a big, fancy house to persuade the people there, just like he tryed to their neighbours, to get a new insurance. The woman in the house, mrs Phyllis Dietrichsen (Barbara Stanwyck), is flirting with Walter and asks him how she can get a life insurance for her husband if he would tragially die, without the man knowing anything.
Walter understand that she really wants is to kill her husband and earn money for it. He leaves but she comes to his home and persuades him to help her killing her husband. The two of them, together. Walter knows an insurance that will give the widow twice as much as she'd usually get, and says that that's what she's going to get.
But after the murder which didn't went so smoothly as they thought, a colleague to Walter, Keyes (Edward G Robinson) is investigating a little private investigation about this sudden death. He thinks that it's Phyllis and a mister Nino Zachetti who commited the murder of Phyllis husband. Keyes doesn't suspect his friend Walter who he has known for a long time and admires.
Walter hear from Lola Dietrechsen (Jean Heather), the stepdaughter of Phyllis, that she knows that Phyllis murdered her father, and that she has killed before. The mother of Lola, Mr Dietrechsen's former wife. Phyllis were her nurse and then she died. Very suspicious.
Walter finds out that Phyllis is seeing Lola's boyfriend, mr Zachetti, behind her back, and to save himself and no longer caring for the money which Phyllis promised him, he tried to make it look like Nino and Phyllis did it. But just as before, it doesn't go according to plan!
This is a pretty good movie. Not bad at all, but sometimes a little bit slow. It's a typical film noir and it's well made. But still, there's something missing. I don't know what really, but it's something.
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