What is Casablanca / Double Indemnity about?

CASABLANCA, 1942, Warner Bros., 102 min. Dir. Michael Curtiz. One of the few classic perennials loved as well today as it was upon its initial release. Tough guy Humphrey Bogart is Rick, an expatriate club owner in Morocco, nursing a broken heart after his sweetheart (Ingrid Bergman) disappeared from his side in Paris during the Nazi occupation. When she re-enters his life with her fugitive, resistance leader husband (Paul Henreid), sparks fly. DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944, Universal, 107 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, the sardonic insurance salesman who is willingly seduced by slinky Phyllis Dietrichson into planning and executing the murder of her newly insured husband. Edward G. Robinson is Keyes, Neff’s sharp colleague and gruff friend, who smells a rat when Phyllis’ hubby has a fatal train "accident," qualifying the femme fatale for the lucrative double-indemnity payout.

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What is Casablanca / Double Indemnity about?: CASABLANCA, 1942, Warner Bros., 102 min. Dir. Michael Curtiz. One of the few classic perennials loved as well today as it was upon its initial release. Tough guy Humphrey Bogart is Rick, an expatriate club owner in Morocco, nursing a broken heart after his sweetheart (Ingrid Bergman) disappeared from his side in Paris during the Nazi occupation. When she re-enters his life with her fugitive, resistance leader husband (Paul Henreid), sparks fly.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944, Universal, 107 min. Dir. Billy Wilder. Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, the sardonic insurance salesman who is willingly seduced by slinky Phyllis Dietrichson into planning and executing the murder of her newly insured husband. Edward G. Robinson is Keyes, Neff’s sharp colleague and gruff friend, who smells a rat when Phyllis’ hubby has a fatal train "accident," qualifying the femme fatale for the lucrative double-indemnity payout.