Some say it's the greatest film about insurance ever made. We watched the 1944 adaptation of Double Indemnity, a film largely credited with making the noir genre hot.

Created by the daring duo of Billy Wilder in the director’s chair and hardboiled master Raymond Chandler wielding the pen, the film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred G. MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. A low-budget film with a fractious writing process, what did it bring to the novel?