{"id":30210,"date":"2022-07-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30210"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:08:50","slug":"the-postman-always-rings-twice-1981-starring-jack-nicolson-jessica-lange-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30210","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Postman Always Rings Twice&#8221;\u00a0(1981) Starring Jack Nicolson &#038; Jessica Lange \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071722zview_postman_ar2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1981)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Bob Rafelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>David Mamet\u00a0<\/strong>based on the James M. Cain novel <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AUjEXf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner, John P. Ryan <\/strong>and <strong>Anjelica Huston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 In the heat of passion two things can happen. The second is murder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank Chambers (Nicholson) is a drifter who plans to scam a meal from a roadside diner and move on.\u00a0 When the diner&#8217;s owner, Nick Papadakis (Colicos), offers Chambers a job, he declines&#8230; then he catches a look at Papadakis&#8217; young wife (Lange).\u00a0 Chambers takes the job,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon he and young Mrs. Papadakis are involved in a low-rent romance.\u00a0 As things heat up, their thoughts turn to cold-blooded murder.\u00a0 With Mr. Papadakis permanently out of the way, they&#8217;ll have each other and the diner to themselves.\u00a0 They think they&#8217;ll be on the way to easy street, but depending on how things turn out it could be the electric chair!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This film is the fourth version of James M. Cain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3AUjEXf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/a>.\u00a0 It was David Mamet&#8217;s first produced screenplay and had Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange in the lead roles.\u00a0 My expectations were high.\u00a0 Sadly, I was disappointed.\u00a0 The advertisements for the film boasted of the heat between Nicholson and Lange.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t feel it.\u00a0 Chambers and Papadakis&#8217; wife need to be so in love (or at least in lust) that they&#8217;re willing to risk everything.\u00a0 I had the feeling that either of them could have moved on without a glance back.\u00a0 The love scenes weren&#8217;t loving or even sexy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a huge fan of the 1946 movie version starring Lana Turner and John Garfield which I thought was a 5 star film.\u00a0 This could have influenced my feelings toward the remake which earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071722zview_postman_ar2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postman Always Rings Twice\u00a0(1981) Director:\u00a0\u00a0 Bob Rafelson Screenplay by:\u00a0 David Mamet\u00a0based on the James M. 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