Double Indemnity

From the Moment they met, it was Murder! Billy Wilders 1944 classic film noir Double Indemnity stars the diabolical Barbara Stanwyck as the femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson, who lures insurance salesman Walter Neff (the under-rated Fred MacMurray) into an insurance scam to benefit from her husbands death. Raymond Chandler had a hand in the screenplay, and the result is a fascinatingly intriguing script that subtly charts the erotic undercurrents of the pair as they try to avoid the persistent attentions of insurance investigator Barton Keyes (exquisitely played by Edward G Robinson). Quintessential noir with one of the most fatales of les femmes.