Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
- california
- seduction
- housewife
- insurance fraud
- stepdaughter
- femme fatale
- film noir
- murder
- life insurance
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Fred MacMurray
Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck
Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson
Barton Keyes
Porter Hall
Mr. Jackson
- Jean Heather — Lola Dietrichson
- Tom Powers — Mr. Dietrichson
- Byron Barr — Nino Zachetti
- Richard Gaines — Edward S. Norton Jr.
- Fortunio Bonanova — Sam Garlopis
- John Philliber — Joe Pete
- Douglas Spencer — Lou Schwartz (uncredited)
- Mona Freeman — Secretary (uncredited)
- Miriam Nelson — Keyes' Secretary (uncredited)
- Teala Loring — Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Betty Farrington — Nettie (uncredited)
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder
Production
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
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