Double Indemnity is consistently ranked one of the best films in the noir genre, bringing together the talents of Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G Robinson for a complex, moody tale of deception and murder.
Insurance salesman Walter Neff's (MacMurray) fate is sealed the day he meets his wealthy client's young wife, Phyllis Dietrichson who seduces the hapless Neff to murder her rich husband in an attempt to cash in on a double-indemnity taken out against the husband's life.
And what is that seduces Neff into his lust and folly? The sight of Mrs Dietrichson atop the stairs wearing nothing but a towel around her waist... and a golden anklet.
"That's a honey of an anklet you're wearing, Mrs Deitrichson"
