When Hitchcock saw this film at a preview screening, he telegraphed its director with the following message: " Since Double Indemnity , the two most important words in the world of cinema are BILLY WILDER." This is just one of the priceless dialogues between Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) and Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), which we owe to the talent of Raymond Chandler.

I sit down and do a stitch.
And that's why she got married?
Maybe I like how the wool holds me up.
What if she ever gets tired? But she wouldn't knit with me.
Oh, no?
I assure you that it is not.