As film noir goes, "Double Indemnity" has little to offer; there are no gangsters, instead there is a highly improbable plot in which an insurance salesman falls over heals for the wife of one of his clients and almost immediately agrees to murder him. Actually, it isn't that improbable when one considers how some real life murder conspiracies begin and play out.
Barbara Stanwyck is the femme fatale, an intoxicating blonde married to a much older man.
There is a saying that when a woman badmouths her ex, remember that six months from now she may be badmouthing you. Now extrapolate this to if she murders the man in her life.
There is another saying: "The best laid plans of mice and men..."
Having committed the near perfect murder, all they have to do is sit back and wait for the insurance money, but things don't go quite according to plan, and as the story starts near the end being related throughout in the first person singular, it doesn't take much nous for the viewer to foresee the inevitable outcome.
Review of Double Indemnity
