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Double Indemnity
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CastFred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Year released1944
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Insurance salesman Walter dictates to claims manager Barton, "You said it wasn't suicide." (0:05)
Phyllis, wife of Walter's customer Dietrichson, tells Walter, referring to her husband, "Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face."
"He was drunk again." (0:28)
Barton tells Neff, "And there was a manic-depressive in her family, on her mother's side." (0:46)
Insurance executive Edward: "Frankly, Mrs. Dietrichson, we suspect suicide."
"Had your husband been moody or depressed lately, Mrs. Dietrichson? "
"Commit suicide."
"He jumps. Suicide."
"We can prove it was suicide."
Barton: "Mr. Norton, the first thing that hit me was that suicide angle... You ought to take a look at the statistics on suicide sometime."
"I've got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poisons, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth. Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under wheels of trains, under wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from steamboats. But Mr. Norton, of all the cases on record there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train." (1:04)
Walter: "Maybe it was suicide, Keyes."
Barton: "No. Not suicide." (1:10)
Dietrichson's daughter Lola tells Walter, "I'm not crazy. I'm not hysterical." Referring to her mother, "She was delirious with fever." (1:14)