Double Indemnity

Just like in Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, the main character is easily manipulated by the opposite sex in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. In my opinion Walter Neff started off as a fairly "good" man. Just going along doing his job until a female came along whom he fell "in love" with. This also seemed to be the case with David (Cary Grant) in Bringing Up Baby. David was drawn into Susan's (Katharine Hepburn) schemes, and eventually fell in love with her. The way I see it was he was easily manipulated by her the entire movie. And I can't really explain why he said he loved her at the end of the movie, so I guess I can't prove my point. There were no signs of his love for Susan until he said so at the end.
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray)in Double Indemnity was easily drawn into Phyllis' (Barbara Stanwyck) schemes the minute he met her. She convinced him she was in this terrible, abusive relatioship, which yes her husband probably didn't give her the attention she would've liked, but lets be serious it most likely wasn't bad enough to murder the guy. Walter started out just doing his job, ran into this looney tune, fell "in love" with her, and continued to be manipulated by her. He was sucked into her schemes so much that he ended up taking charge and carrying out the murder himself. Bing-go! Walter was easily manipulated by this 1940's gold-digger, which led him to a complete downfall in his own life, and ended his chance of really ever being a "good guy" again.