CREDITS DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944 dir: Billy Wilder Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G Robinson

“It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.”

Insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) is ensnared by femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) to bump off her – well-insured – hubby in Wilder’s classic noir.

Dietrichson’s’s house, supposedly in ‘Los Feliz’, can be found in the maze of tiny winding lanes in the Hollywood Hills, north from Franklin Avenue. In the movie it stood alone, overlooking Hollywood, but now, although unchanged, it is packed into a densely built up area of pricy properties.

Please note that this is a private property, and do NOT disturb the residents – who obvioulsy have no connection whatsoever with the film. As any self-respecting film fan will know, interiors were almost invariably filmed back in the controlled environment of the studio.

‘Pasadena Station’ was filmed at the Glendale Amtrak Station on Cerritos Avenue off Vassar Avenue by Forest Lawn Memorial Park.