Despite director Bernard Rose's frequent claims during the UK publicity campaign for the film that it was "the greatest British film ever made," the film was not only a major flop but one of the worst reviewed films of the year.
Even though Hans Zimmer is credited with the score, in an old interview with Shirley Walker, she stated for legal reasons Zimmer was credited but he didn't write any of the score and this was all done by her.
Based on a notorious real-life murder case of the 1940s, which was also in part the basis of a British crime drama, Les ailes brûlées (1948).
Footage of Double Indemity is seen.