Nominada a 7 premios Oscar. 5 victorias y 9 nominaciones en total.
Presupuesto$927,262
Taquilla$0
Recaudación Total$2,500,000
Sinopsis:
En la ciudad de Los Angeles un agente de una compañía de seguros (Fred MacMurray) y una cliente (Bárbara Stanwyck) traman asesinar al marido de esta última para así cobrar un cuantioso y falso seguro de accidentes. Todo se complica cuando entra en acción Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), investigador de la empresa de seguros.
Sinopsis en inglés:
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.