In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes ...
It tells the story of insurance salesman Walter Neff (MacMurray) who meets Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) when he sells her husband a $50,000 accident policy containing a double indemnity clause.