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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946),
Director: Tay Garnett, rated Approved
Their Love was
a Flame that Destroyed!
  Starring:
Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon
Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Rood, Jeff York
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"With my brains and
your looks, we could go places."
- Frank Chambers to Cora Smith
Why watch this?
Desperation breeds action, often to terrible consequences.
Plot Summary:
A drifter named Frank Chambers starts working at a rural
California roadside diner and immediately enters into a
passionate, illicit affair with Cora, the young and unhappy wife
of the older owner, Nick Smith. Craving a new life and financial
freedom, the lovers plot to murder Nick and seize the diner, but
their amateur attempts at crime are met with suspicions from
local authorities.
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Dad's Preview:
At the cinematic high-point of film noir, there was no
movie more filled with sexual innuendo and plots of
betrayal than this drama. It centers on two lost souls,
bitter about their lives, who are determined to better
their situation via any means necessary, up to and
including murder - the two horrible people deserve each
other. Lana Turner, as a stunning femme fatale, and John
Garfield, as a desperate drifter, dominate the film.
Famed director Quentin Tarantino loved this noir
offering so much that he referenced it in
Kill
Bill Vol. 2 (2004), where retired pimp, Esteban
Vellajo, recalls Bill's obsession with blondes. |
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Carey Wilson,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Loew's Inc. |
