Double Indemnity (film) Quotes

Double Indemnity (film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Double Indemnity completed its run in 1970.

It features Joseph Sistrom as producer, Miklós Rózsa in charge of musical score, and John Seitz as head of cinematography.

Double Indemnity (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Double Indemnity (film) is 107 minutes long. Double Indemnity (film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis, Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes, and Porter Hall as Jackson.

Double Indemnity (film) Quotes

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Who?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "My husband. You were anxious to talk to him weren't you?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour."
• (Fred MacMurray) "How fast was I going, officer?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I'd say around ninety."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Suppose I let you off with a warning this time."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Suppose it doesn't take."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder."
• (Fred MacMurray) "That tears it."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Neff is the name, isn't it?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "Yeah. Two "F"s, like in Philadelphia, if you know the story."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What story?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "The Philadelphia Story."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "We're both rotten."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Only you're a little more rotten."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Do you make your own breakfast, Mr Neff?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "Well, I squeeze a grapefruit now and again."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I'm a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles."
• (Fred MacMurray) "They say all native Californians come from Iowa."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working."

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Just came from Norton's office. Semiannual sales records are out. You're high man, Walter. That's twice in a row. Congratulations."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Thanks. How'd you like a cheap drink?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "How'd you like a $50 cut in salary?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "Do I laugh now or wait til it gets funny?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "I'm serious. I've just been talking to Norton. Too much stuff piling up on my desk. Too much pressure on my nerves. I spend half the night walking up and down on my bed. I've got to have an assistant and I thought of you."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Me? Why pick on me?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "'Cause I've got a crazy idea you might be good at the job."
• (Fred MacMurray) "That's crazy all right. I'm a salesman."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Yeah, peddlar. Glad-handler. Back-slapper. You're too good to be a salesman."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Nobody's too good to be a salesman."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Phooey. All you guys do is ring a doorbell and hand out a smooth line of monkey dough. What's troubling you is that fifty buck cut, isn't it?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "That'd trouble anybody."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Look Walter, the job I'm talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It's the hardest job in the business."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Yeah, but it's still a desk job. I don't want to be nailed to a desk."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from 9 to 5? Just a pile of papers to shuffle around and 5 sharp pencils and a scratchpad to make figures on? Maybe a little doodling on the side? Well that's not the way I look at it, Walter. To me, a claims man is a surgeon. That desk is an operating table and those pencils are scalpels and bone-chisels. And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation. They're alive. They're packed with drama, with twisted hopes and crooked dreams. A claims man, Walter, is a, is a doctor and a bloodhound and a"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Who? Okay, hold on a minute. A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a cop and a judge and a jury and a father confessor all in one. And you want to tell me you're not interested. You don't want to work with your brains. All you want to do is work with your finger on the doorbell for a few bucks more a week. There's a dame on your phone."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Have you made up your mind?"
• (Porter Hall) "Mr. Keyes, I'm a Medford man; Medford, Oregon. Up in Medford, we take our time making up our minds."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Well, we're not in Medford now, we're in a hurry."

• (Edward S. Norton) "That witness from the train, what was his name?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "His name was Jackson. Probably still is."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "What's the matter? Dames chasing you again? Or still? Or is it none of my business?"
• (Fred MacMurray) "If I told you it was a customer, you'd --"
• (Edward G. Robinson) ""Margie". I bet she drinks from the bottle."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter -- you're just a little taller."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Well, I get darn sick of tryin' to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Walter, you're all washed up."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "This Dietrichson business. It's murder. And murders don't come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anyone ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect. But -- I think papa has it all figured out. Figured out and wrapped up in tissue paper with -- pink ribbons on it."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Now look, Walter. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on the train. Then, two weeks later, he is killed on the train. And, not from the train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observation car. You know what the mathematical probability of that is? One out of, oh, I don't know how many billions. And after that, the broken leg. No, it just, it just can't be the way it looks. Something has been worked on us."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Eh? There it is, Walter. It's beginning to come apart at the seams already. Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it's usually sooner. Now we know the Dietrichson dame is in it and a somebody else. Pretty soon, we'll know who that somebody else is. He'll show. He's got to show. Sometime, somewhere, they've got to meet. Their emotions are all kicked up. Whether it's love or hate doesn't matter; they can't keep away from each other. They may think it's twice as safe because there's two of them,"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "but it isn't twice as safe. It's ten times twice as dangerous. They've committed a murder. And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. She put in her claim -- I'm gonna throw it right back at her."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Let her sue us if she dares. I'll be ready for her and that somebody else. They'll be digging their own graves."

• (Edward G. Robinson) "Now that's enough out of you, Walter. Now get outta here before I throw my desk at you."
• (Fred MacMurray) "I love you, too."
• (Fred MacMurray) "I really did, too, you old crab. Always yelling your head off, always sore at everybody. You never fooled me with your song and dance, not for a second. I kinda always knew that behind all the cigar ashes on your vest was a heart as big as a house."

Porter Hall as Jackson

• (Porter Hall) "These are fine cigars you smoke."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Two for a quarter."
• (Porter Hall) "That's what I said."

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff

• (Fred MacMurray) "Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it's true, so help me. I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?"

• (Fred MacMurray) "It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Dear Keyes, I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it -- Well, I don't like the word confession, I just want to set you right about something you couldn't see because it was smack up against your nose. You think you're such a hot potato as a claims manager; such a wolf on a phony claim -- Maybe y'are. But let's take a look at that Dietrichson claim -- accident and double indemnity. You were pretty good in there for awhile Keyes -- you said it wasn't an accident, check. You said it wasn't suicide, check. You said it was murder -- check."

• (Fred MacMurray) "I was thinking about that dame upstairs, and the way she had looked at me, and I wanted to see her again, close, without that silly staircase between us."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Who'd you think I was anyway? The guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlour and says, "Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands -- you got one that's been around too long? One you'd like to turn into a little hard cash?""

• (Fred MacMurray) "That's a honey of an anklet you're wearing, Mrs. Dietrichson."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? I'll tell ya. 'Cause the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Closer than that, Walter."
• (Fred MacMurray) "I love you, too."

• (Fred MacMurray) "What do the police figure?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Hello, Keyes. You're up pretty early, aren't you? I always wondered what time you got down to the office. Or did that little man of yours pull you out of bed?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "The janitor did. Seems you leaked a little blood on the way in here."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Yeah, wouldn't be surprised. I wanted to straighten you out on that Dietrichson case."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "So I gather."
• (Fred MacMurray) "How long you been standing there?"
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Long enough."
• (Fred MacMurray) "Kind of a crazy story with a crazy twist to it. One you didn't quite figure out."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "You can't figure them all, Walter."
• (Fred MacMurray) "That's right. I guess you can't at that. Now I suppose I get the big speech. The one with all the two dollar words in it. Let's have it, Keyes."
• (Edward G. Robinson) "Walter, you're all washed up."

• (Fred MacMurray) "Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money; and a woman; and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?"

• (Fred MacMurray) "I get the general idea. She was a tramp from a long line of tramps."

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