The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Directed by

Tay Garnett

Genre

drama film, film noir, romance film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 379 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drifter gets involved with the wife of a roadside diner owner. The two begin an affair and scheme to get rid of her husband.

suspensefultensemelancholicromanticbleakdarkly romanticslow-burnseductive

What happens

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1946 American film noir directed by Tay Garnett and starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, and Cecil Kellaway. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by James M. Cain. This adaptation of the novel also features Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames and Audrey Totter. The musical score was written by George Bassman and Erich Zeisl (the latter uncredited). This version was the third filming of The Postman Always Rings Twice, but the first under the novel's original title and the first in English. Previously, the novel had been filmed as Le Dernier Tournant (The Last Turning) in France in 1939 and as Ossessione (Obsession) in Italy in 1943. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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