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* AffablyEvil: Walter is a smooth-talking and charismatic insurance salesman and a very likable and sympathetic protagonist who acts like TheEveryman. This makes it easy to forget that he's a murderer who killed an innocent man for "money and a woman" and even attempts to [[spoiler: frame an innocent person for his crimes. Though he does call it off at the last minute and has a HeelRealization.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Walter is a smooth-talking and charismatic insurance salesman and a very likable and sympathetic protagonist who acts like TheEveryman. This makes it easy to forget that he's a murderer who killed an innocent man for "money and a woman" and even attempts to [[spoiler: frame [[spoiler:frame an innocent person for his crimes. Though he does call it off at the last minute and has a HeelRealization.]]
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** Phyllis also seems to have one [[spoiler: right before Walter kills her.]]
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** Phyllis also seems to have one [[spoiler: right [[spoiler:right before Walter kills her.]]
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* OhCrap: Clearly what's going through Walter's mind when [[spoiler: Mr. Jackson]] shows up outside Keyes' office.
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* OhCrap: Clearly what's going through Walter's mind when [[spoiler: Mr.[[spoiler:Mr. Jackson]] shows up outside Keyes' office.
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* BattleaxeNurse: Three guesses on who the nurse was who took care of the late first Mrs. Dietrichson.
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* BattleaxeNurse: Three guesses on who [[spoiler:Phyllis was the nurse for Lola's mother, and Lola believes that Phyllis was who took care of the late first Mrs. Dietrichson.responsible for her death.]]
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* AllForNothing: Walter and Phyllis end up dead. The insurance company will not pay out the policy. Keyes loses his best friend. Lola loses her family.
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* AllForNothing: Walter and Phyllis end up dead. The insurance company will not pay out the policy. Keyes loses his best friend. Lola loses her family.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse
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* MurderTheHypotenuseMurderTheHypotenuse: Walter is instantly smitten with Phyllis, and is willing to kill her husband to be with her.
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* OutlawCouple: Though a subplot is how Walter and Phyllis were barely a couple to begin with, and, out of necessity, how they gradually have to separate after the murder to avoid attracting suspicion.
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* OutlawCouple: Though a subplot is how Averted, to an extent. After Dietrichson's death, Walter and Phyllis were barely a couple to begin with, and, out of necessity, how they gradually have to separate after the murder must stay as far away from each other as possible, to avoid attracting suspicion.surveillance. They do technically avoid becoming outlaws-by the end of the movie, both are dead before the police get involved.
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The one pure character (Dietrichson's daughter) seems to be the story's TheWoobie.
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* LadyMacbeth: Phyllis is it not to her husband but to Walter.
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* LadyMacbeth: Phyllis is it not to her husband but this to Walter.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Keyes is a bachelor with almost no personal life, and, in fact, this trope applies quite literally to him. His investigative instincts led him to call off his own wedding.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Keyes is a bachelor with almost no personal life, and, in fact, this trope applies quite literally to him. His investigative instincts led him to call off his own wedding.wedding because of his justified suspicions of his bride.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted. Neff receives a (visually-downplayed) gunshot wound in the shoulder, and [[spoiler:apparently dies from it at the end.]]
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted. Neff receives a (visually-downplayed) gunshot wound in the shoulder, and [[spoiler:apparently dies [[spoiler:dies from it at the end.]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The one pure character (Dietrichson's daughter) seems to be the story's TheWoobie.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Neff is a murderer, while Phyllis is his willing accomplice. If Lola is telling the truth, Phyllis killed her mother, as well. If Phyllis is to be believed, the main victim, Dietrichson, was a horrible if not abusive husband. Keyes is a generally decent person, although his investigations are for the benefit of the insurance company, not any notions of justice.
The one pure character (Dietrichson's daughter) seems to be the story's TheWoobie.
The one pure character (Dietrichson's daughter) seems to be the story's TheWoobie.
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* DownerEnding: Obviously given that it stars a VillainProtagonist during the height of the Hays Code.
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* DownerEnding: Obviously given that it stars a VillainProtagonist during the height of Walter and Phyllis both die, and Keyes loses his best friend. Per the Hays Code.Code, criminals were required to face punishment for their crimes.
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* LoveEpiphany: The only logical explanation as to why [[spoiler:Phyllis doesn't kill Walter.]]
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* LoveEpiphany: The only logical explanation as to why [[spoiler:Phyllis doesn't kill Walter.shoot Walter a second time.]]
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* NeverSuicide: Averted - this is Norton's initial theory about Dietrichson's death. Keyes promptly points out the impracticality of the method in question for deliberately killing oneself.
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* NeverSuicide: Averted inverted - this the simple explanation is Norton's initial theory about that Dietrichson's death. death was an accident, while Norton argues that it was a suicide, which would be entitled to a much smaller payout. While Keyes promptly points out disproves this theory, he later deduces the impracticality gist of the method in question for deliberately killing oneself.real plot.
