Editing Double Indemnity (section)

===Original ending===
The screenplay ends with Keyes watching Neff's execution in the [[gas chamber]]. Wilder shot the scene from Neff's perspective, looking out of the gas chamber at Keyes.<ref name="Naremore">Naremore, James. ''More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 
:See page 94 for two still photos of the execution scene.</ref> Wilder shot for five days and spent $150,000 on the scene, which he felt was one of the best he ever directed.<ref name="Moffat"/><ref>Hartack, Don. Cinematexas Program Notes, 20 no. 1 (1981): 18-19.</ref> Production stills of this scene exist, and the footage may still be in Paramount's vaults.<ref name="Naremore"/>

However, the director ultimately decided to end the film with Keyes and Neff in their office, because "You couldn't have a more meaningful scene between two men...The story was between the two guys."<ref name="Creatures"/>{{rp|180}} Chandler objected to the change.<ref name="Lally"/>{{rp|137–8}} Joseph Breen felt the execution was "unduly gruesome",<ref>Production Code Administration report, December 1, 1943, [[Margaret Herrick Library]] of the Motion Picture Academy, Los Angeles.</ref> and its removal settled his office's last issue with the film.<ref name="zolmain"/>{{rp|118}}