The Postman Always Rings Twice
Directed by Tay Garnett
1946/USA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
First viewing
#185 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die It’s back to a studio big-budget glamour noir for this installment of noir month. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it until today. read more
I have a soft spot for The Postman Always Rings Twice – it’s one of the few noirs I’ve ever seen on the big screen, and one of the first I ever saw, many (many) years ago. (For the review of this classic noir, check out Andrew’s entry for Seven Shadows Week over at 1001 Movies I [Apparently] read more
When you look to any morality play--whether it's Greek tragedy, a western, or Star Wars--the antagonists are almost always adorned in black and the protagonists in the purity of white. That symbolism seems to be as old as time. Therefore when you think of a femme fatale in film read more
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) film noir based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, and Audrey Totter. Directed by Tay Garnett. Score written by George Bassman and Erich Zeisl.
Being a huge L read more
I’d heard–read, actually, but maybe heard as well–the 1981 Postman Always Rings Twice was terrible. If I knew Rafelson directed it, I’d forgotten. I did remember David Mamet wrote it. For some reason, I always thought it was an in name only remake, not at all based on the Ca read more
