{"id":17033,"date":"2016-12-27T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17033"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:47:59","slug":"the-postman-always-rings-twice-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17033","title":{"rendered":"The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) starring Lana Turner &amp; John Garfield \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122716zview_postmanalwaysringstwice_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong><span class=\"itemprop\">Tay Garnett<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:<strong> Harry Ruskin Niven<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Busch;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4btWub2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE<\/a> by<strong> James M. Cain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway,\u00a0Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Alan Reed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank Chambers, a drifter stops at a diner and is offered a job by the middle-aged owner, Nick Smith. \u00a0As Frank begins to turn down the work, he spots Cora, a very attractive waitress and changes his mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon enough Frank learns that Cora is Frank&#8217;s wife. \u00a0Frank would be ready to move on except that Cora seems interested in him. \u00a0Although both Frank and Cora attempt to fight the attraction, it&#8217;s strong and won&#8217;t be denied. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t take long until Frank and Cora are planning Nick&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And we all know how those things work out, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garfield and Turner definitely had chemistry. \u00a0I love how each of them fights the attraction. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James M. Cain, who wrote the novel that the movie was based on, was so impressed with Lana Turner that he gave her a leather-bound copy of the book inscribed, &#8220;<em>For my dear Lana, thank you for giving a performance that was even finer than I expected<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/em> has a couple of great twists. \u00a0The cast and direction are top notch.<\/p>\n<p>A classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122716zview_postmanalwaysringstwice_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Director: Tay Garnett Screenplay: Harry Ruskin Niven\u00a0and\u00a0Busch;\u00a0\u00a0based on THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41259,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033\/revisions\/41259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}