Radio review - Ford Theatre - "Double Indemnity" (1948) ****

Burt Lancaster and Joan Bennett would have made good casting in a film version of this story - Bennett was a dab hand at femme fetales as her work for Fritz Lang especially showed (not to mention her real life involvement in the Jennings Lang-Walter Wagner triangle), and Lancaster made a good sap. He doesn't have the sleaziness of Fred MacMurray but he's more easily duped as he was in a fair few film noirs. This adapts the movie rather than the novel directly so it's full of that wonderful dialogue and it condenses well (even if the role of the daughter's boyfriend is reduced).