THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
1946,
Warner Bros.,
113 min,
USA,
Dir: Tay Garnett
Lana Turner and John Garfield scorch the screen as a pair of murderous lovers, in director Tay Garnett’s much-imitated but never-equaled dark romance, one of the high points of 1940s film noir. Based on the novel by the great James M. Cain (the title famously refers to Cain’s own postman, who would ring twice when delivering rejection notices from publishers).