Screenwriters: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler

One of the great film noirs, Double Indemnity stars Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck as a less-than-scrupulous insurance agent and a calculating wife who hatch a plan to do away with her wealthy husband. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband’s murder, they are pursued by the agent’s boss, a suspicious claims manager played by Edward G. Robinson. It’s a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in Billy Wilder’s suspenseful masterpiece that was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.