The Postman Always Rings Twice

United States

1946

113 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

SCR James M. Cain, Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch

CAST Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Leon Ames

MUSIC George Bassman, Erich Zeisl

Synopsis

Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick’s beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by “accident.” But the best laid plans…… —IMDb

Director

Tay Garnett

Tay Garnett (born William Taylor Garnett 13 June 1894 – 3 October 1977) was an American film director and writer.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathé and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are One Way Passage (1932), China Seas (1935), Eternally Yours (1939), Seven Sinners (1940), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), The Cross of Lorraine (1943), and Bataan (1943). He is best known as the director of the 1946 thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice with John Garfield and Lana Turner. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming was also well-received. Garnett also worked in radio as a writer, director and narrator. He created a show titled “Three Sheets to the Wind”(1942) which starred John Wayne as Dan O’Brien, an American private eye posing as a drunk on a luxury liner… read more

Wall

Displaying 4 of 10 wall posts.

see all

Matthew Martens

23Mar12

This first adaptation lacks both the sting of the novel and, despite the presence of the inimitable Lana Turner, the swooning sultriness of the 1981 remake. Nevertheless, once we reach the courts the implacable walls of fate begin to close in in a clever and satisfying manner. She's funny that way.