The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Directed by Tay Garnett
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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What critics compared The Postman Always Rings Twice to
When first ecnountered, playing ping-pong, Nola is dressed in a tight white outfit, generating the kind of eroticism that recalls the first sight of Lana Turner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
She gets to sport the kind of turbaned headwear favored by 1940s movie stars – think Lana Turner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice” – plus those devilish twisting horns.
In shooting the murder of Richard Crenna’s Edmund, Lawrence Kasdan cut away from the actual bludgeoning just as Tay Garnett did in The Postman Always Rings Twice .
Among the little-known gems: "Story of a Love Affair" (1950), Antonioni's first feature, which is an adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" ; "Chung Kuo China" (1972), a four-hour documentary of daily Chinese life during Mao's Cultural Revolution; and "The Mystery of Oberwald" (1980), picked by Time magazine as one of the best films of 1980, yet the adaptation of Jean Cocteau's "The Eagle Has Two Heads" has never been released in North America.