What happens
Insurance salesman Walter Neff confesses in a dictated memo to his claims manager, Keys, how he came to be wounded. Walter calls on Mrs. Phyllis Dietrichson, whose husband is an oil executive, to renew an automobile policy. Their meetings turn into a plan involving an accident insurance policy on the husband. The Lux Radio Theatre production of Double Indemnity, starring Barbara Stanwick and Fred McMurray, was broadcast on October 30, 1950, adapted from James M. Cain's novel. The story's scenes follow the couple's growing closeness and the arrangements they make in the supermarket and at the Dietrichson home.
Los Angeles and nearby Glendale, California, in the summer of 1938, including an insurance office, the Dietrichson house, a supermarket and a train.
Characters: Walter Neff, Phyllis Dietrichson, Mr. Dietrichson, Keys, Lola Dietrichson, Nettie, Nino Zachetti, Jackson
Listen for: Walter's recorded confession to Keys, which frames the story in flashback, and the scenes in which Walter and Phyllis plan the policy in the supermarket and the train.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.