The film famously ends with Walter collapsed on the floor, with Keyes lighting a cigarette for him as sirens approach outside, but the original script actually went further, showing Neff’s arrest and his eventual execution in a gas chamber.

What happens to Phyllis in Double Indemnity?

In the novella, Phyllis is a former nurse who was suspected of killing several children in her care; the case was dropped for lack of evidence. Also, in the novel’s climax, she escapes with Neff (here called Huff) and goes away with him on an ocean liner; there, she kills him, too.

Is Walter Neff married?

Continuity. Walter Neff is unmarried, yet he wears a wedding ring throughout the movie.