"Double Indemnity"

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The 1944 film, "Double Indemnity," starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, is a film in which greed and desire take over the lives of the two main characters and ultimately lead to their destruction. This paper analyzes the story and characters of the film and examines the role that greed plays in the characters' downfall.

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"As things continue to fall apart, Walter realizes that Phyllis has been using him the entire time. He is determined to kill her before she can do the same to him. The two are now double-crossing each other and it is a matter of seeing which one of them can silence the other first. Phyllis' greed is stronger than Walter's and while she plots against him using Nino as an accomplice, she does not count on Walter's survival instinct kicking in, which, although stronger than his greed and desire, cannot prevent him, in the end, from being completely destroyed."

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