Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity

Walter Neff: You know, about six months ago, a guy slipped on a cake of soap in his bathtub, knocked himself cold, and was drowned. Only, he had accident insurance, so they had an autopsy, and she didn't get away with it
Phyllis: Who didn't?
Walter Neff: His wife. Then there was the case of the guy who was found shot. His wife said

he was cleaning his gun and his stomach got in the way. All she got was a 3-to-10 stretch in Tehachapi
[a California women's prison]
Walter Neff: .
Phyllis: [Wearily] Perhaps it was worth it to her.

Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity

Walter Neff: The insurance ran out on the 15th. I'd hate to think of you having a smashed fender or something while you're not... fully covered.
Phyllis: Perhaps I know what you mean, Mr. Neff. I've just been taking a sun-bath.
Walter Neff: No pigeons around, I hope.

Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity

Barton Keyes: Every month, hundreds of claims come to this desk. Some of them are phonies, and I know which ones. How do I know? Because my little man tells me.
Sam Gorlopis: What "little man"?
Barton Keyes: The little man in here. Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach; I can't eat! Yours is one of

them Gorlupis - that's how I knew your claim was crooked. So what did I do? I send a tow car over to your garage this afternoon. And they jacked up that burned out truck of yours, And what did they find? They found what was left of a neat pile of shavings.
Sam Gorlopis: What shavings?
Barton Keyes: The ones you soaked with kerosene and dropped the

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