Double Indemnity (1944): Phyllis's' Marriage

The clip Phyllis's' marriage from Double Indemnity (1944) with Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray

Get a couple of glasses, will you?
Club soda?
Plain water, please.
You know, about six months ago a guy slipped on a cake of soap in his bathtub...
...and knocked himself cold and was drowned.
Only he had accident insurance.
So they had an autopsy and she didn't get away with it.
Who didn't?
His wife.
Then there was a case of a guy who was found shot.
His wife said he was cleaning a gun and his stomach got in the way.
All she collected was a three-to-ten stretch in Tehachapi.
Perhaps it was worth it to her.
See if you can carry that as far as the living room.
It's nice here, Walter. Who takes care of it for you?
A colored woman comes in a couple of times a week.
Cook your own breakfast?
Squeeze a grapefruit once in a while.
Get the rest down at the corner drugstore.
Sounds wonderful.
Just strangers beside you.
You don't know them and you don't hate them.
You don't have to sit across the table...
...and smile at him and that daughter of his every morning of your life.
What daughter? You mean the little girl on the piano?
Lola. She lives with us.
He thinks a lot more of her than he does of me.
You ever think of a divorce?
He wouldn't give me a divorce.
I suppose because it'd cost him too much money.
He hasn't got any money. Not since he went into the oil business.
But he had when you married him?
Yes, he had. And I wanted a home. Why not?
But that's not the only reason. I was his wife's nurse.
She was sick a long time. When she died, he was terribly broken up.
I pitied him so.
And now you hate him.
Yes, Walter. He's so mean to me.
Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes he yells his head off.
He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up.
He's always been mean to me.
Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his.
That Lola.

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