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| Lana Turner | Cora Smith |
| John Garfield | Frank Chambers |
| Cecil Kellaway | Nick Smith |
| Hume Cronyn | Arthur Keats |
| Audrey Totter | Madge Gorland |
| Alan Reed Sr. | Ezra Liam Kennedy |
| Leon Ames | Kyle Sackett |
| Jeff York | Blair |
| Philip Ahlm | |
| John Alban | |
| Morris Ankrum | Judge |
| Betty Blythe | Customer |
| Paul Bradley | Man |
| Wally Cassell | Ben |
| Jack Chefe | Headwaiter |
| Dick Crockett | Reporter |
| Oliver Cross | Man |
| James Darrell | Reporter |
| Tom Dillon | Father McConnell |
| Edward Earle | Doctor |
| James Farley | Warden |
| Byron Foulger | Picnic Manager |
| Joel Friedkin | John X. MacHugh |
| Cameron Grant | Willie |
| William Halligan | Judge |
| Paul Kruger | Officer |
| Frank Mayo | Bailiff |
| Harold Miller | Photographer |
| Howard Mitchell | Doctor |
| George Noisom | Telegraph Messenger |
| Garry Owen | Truck Driver |
| Dorothy Phillips | Nurse |
| Dan Quigg | |
| Virginia Randolph | Snooty Woman |
| Paula Ray | Woman |
| Walter Ridge | |
| Jeffrey Sayre | Reporter |
| Edgar Sherrod | |
| Reginald Simpson | Photographer |
| John Maurice Sullivan | Doctor |
| Brick Sullivan | Officer |
| Charles Williams | Doctor |
| Tay Garnett | Director |
| George Bassman | Score Composer |
| Niven Busch | Screenwriter |
| Jack Dawn | Makeup |
| Randall Duell | Art Director |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Director |
| Irene | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Marion Herwood Keyes | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Neil Moret | Songwriter |
| Harry Ruskin | Screenwriter |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Sidney Wagner | Cinematographer |
| George White | Editor |
| Richard A. Whiting | Songwriter |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration/Design |
| Carey Wilson | Producer |
This movie is dreadful. MGM should have stuck to musicals and epics and not tried to cash in on the success of film noir.
The performances are terrible, the departures from the plot are stupid, and the factual errors are horrifying. Watch Double Indemnity for a good adaptation of a Cain novel.
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Lana shines, Garfield excels in this film that is without doubt a classic!
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Posted October 1, 2010
'The Postman Always Rings Twice'(1946) is a film noir classic about two misguided lovers, Cora Smith (Lana Turner) and Frank Chambers (John Garfield). Frank is a drifter who accidentally stumbles onto a roadside diner run by Cora¿s middle-aged hubby, Nick (Cecil Kellaway). At first Frank is determined to keep everything on the square. He¿s cool to Cora in a flirtatious sort of way and she reciprocates that coolness with all the frozen assets of an ice princess. But before long the two are bumping and grinding behind the counter and taking off for their nightly midnight swims. Cora soon decides to run away with Frank while Nick is away on business. But her threshold for the creature comforts of life - comforts that Nick has provided but Frank cannot - lead the two to schlep back to the diner in a flurry of sexual frustration before Nick gets home. A plan to electrocute Nick in the bath tube gets bungled and Nick survives. But by now, District Attorney Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames) is suspicious. Cora and Frank liquor up Nick and take him for a drive. The plan now is to drive the car over a cliff. However, this too backfires as the car with Nick¿s unconscious body inside does not plunge down the precipice. Instead, when Frank climbs to where the car has become entangled in some underbrush, he accidentally forces it over the edge with him inside. Cora is apprehended by Sackett for the murder of her husband and attempted murder of Frank. Though she is exonerated of the charges the illicit lovers continue to live under the constant and microscopic scrutiny of Sackett. Based on the novel by James M. Cain, this version (for the sake of censorship), alters a few of Cain's original concepts, but is considerably more thrilling than the Jack Nicholson remake from the 1980's. Lana Turner - as always - is a vision. John Garfield gives yet another solid performance in his all too brief acting canon. Warner Brothers gives us a beautiful looking DVD. The gray scale is superb with rich blacks, excellent contrast levels and minimal film grain throughout. There is a hint of fine detail shimmering. There are no aliasing or edge enhancement effects for an image that is smooth, crisp and fully realized in fine details. The audio is mono and nicely presented. Extras include the fantastic documentary, ¿The John Garfield Story¿ narrated by his daughter, Julie and an informative audio commentary. This is about as good as vintage Hollywood film making gets. With a gorgeous transfer to boot this postman does indeed ring twice!
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Posted October 1, 2010
I really enjoyed this film. I thought that is was suspensful, well acted, and romantic. I really liked how through every thing they always paid for what they did and never got away with anything. I think that this film had a good message and everybody shoud see it.
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Posted October 24, 2010
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