A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.
Fred MacMurray
as Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck
as Phyllis Dietrichson
Edward G. Robinson
as Barton Keyes
Porter Hall
as Mr. Jackson
Jean Heather
as Lola Dietrichson
Tom Powers
as Mr. Dietrichson
Byron Barr
as Nino Zachetti
Richard Gaines
as Edward S. Norton Jr.
Fortunio Bonanova
as Sam Garlopis
John Philliber
as Joe Pete
John Berry
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Raymond Chandler
as Man Reading Book (uncredited)