10 Foolproof Movie Methods For Murdering Your Spouse

9. Maximise Your Profit (Double Indemnity, 1944)

If you€™re going to take such a massive risk, you€™d better have every contingency in place to ensure that you get what you want out of the crime. After all, you can only do it once. In Billy Wilder€™s Double Indemnity, a duplicitous wife intends to take out a life insurance policy on her husband without his knowledge, and then ensure that something bad happens to him. When she coyly asks a local insurance agent for pointers, the two embark upon an affair and he uses his professional experience to design a policy for the doomed man that will pay out double if he meets his maker by way of an accident: the €˜double indemnity€™ of the title. Double (or even triple) indemnity insurance products were big back in the forties, when this movie was made: however, life insurance is big business whatever decade you€™re in. The key thing is to ensure that, whatever the circumstances, you€™ve made sure to make as much money out of it as possible. You€™re risking a lot here, and you€™ll need a nest egg to retire to a non-extradition country with.